Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and James Comer (R-KY) – chair and ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform – have called on FBI Director Christopher Wary to explain why the Bureau chose not to provide a decryption key to the victims of the REvil ransomware attack on Kaseya’s network management software. The FBI has stated that they withheld the key they had acquired to give them an opportunity to mount a counterattack without tipping off the perpetrators. However the attackers reportedly went offline before that could happen, and victims were still left without functioning systems. Maloney and Comer said the FBI’s actions potentially cost “the ransomware victims – including schools and hospitals – millions of dollars.”
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