Today the price is floating around $55,000. And before the first announcement, the Bitcoin price hit an all-time high above $61,000. Given the price difference, the admin makes a profit at the current Bitcoin price.
Even with the return of the ransom, the Ziggy hackers should make a hefty profit.
So far their communications have been short and to the point. And despite the fact they feel “sad” they had to be concerned the authorities were closing in on them. Emotet and Netwalker ransomware hackers were hit by law enforcement in cooperative efforts of international cybercrime units. They were both much larger than Ziggy.
Ziggy is not the first to close down operations. The UK-based Fonix operators also put aside their cyber weapons and gave their victims a master decryption key, in late January.
