The notorious Hunters International ransomware-as-a-service operation has announced that it has shut down, in a message posted on its dark web leak site.
In a statement on its extortion site, the ransomware group says that it has not only “decided to close the Hunters International project” but is also offering free decryption tools to its previous victims – with no ransom payment required.
Hunters International does not give a specific reason for its closure, but says that the “significant de