The BlackMatter ransomware gang has announced they are going to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities.

And pressure there is. Only two weeks ago, we wrote about a warning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the National Security Agency (NSA) had issued over BlackMatter ransomware.

Missing staff

One revealing sentence in the posted message says that “part of the team is no longer available, after the latest news.” This could well be a reference to an announcement made by Europol last week, after it arrested 12 individuals “wreaking havoc across the world with ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure.”