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Assistant Director of the Cyber Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Bryan Vorndran speaks at a hearing with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2021. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Lawmakers say they have received scant information from the FBI about a recent ransomware investigation, with top bureau officials offering few answers about decisions that cost U.S. businesses millions of dollars and produced questionable results.
During a Nov. 16 House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on ransomware, the FBI was questioned about its handling of the July attack against U.S. IT company Kaseya—in which hackers from the ransomware group REvil exploited a vulnerability in Kaseya software to exfiltrate the data of some 1,500 U.S. businesses, schools, hospitals, and other entities.
In September, it was revealed that the FBI had obtained a decryption key in July that would have allowed the hundreds of victim entities to retrieve their data, but agents withheld the key because they didn’t want to tip off REvil about a major law enforcement operation they were planning.
The FBI never had a chance to execute its planned operation against REvil, as the group went offline in late July.
The FBI has come under scrutiny from Congress over its handling of the failed operation, which is said to have cost businesses millions of dollars because of the costs associated with retrieving their data. Some entities rebuilt their systems or retrieved backup copies of their data, while others temporarily closed during the incident.
However, the FBI has apparently been tight-lipped about the matter with Congress.
At the Nov. 16 House Oversight and Reform Committee meeting on ransomware, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the panel’s ranking Republican, criticized the bureau for its lack of transparency about the issue.
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“In September, the chairwoman and I asked [FBI] Director [Christopher] Wray for a briefing on the FBI’s decisions. We never received that briefing,” Comer said, directing his ire toward Bryan Vorndran, the assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division. “Please relay to Director Wray that when the Oversight Committee requests a briefing, we expect a briefing.”
Comer questioned Vorndran […]
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