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🚨 A U.S. government agency reportedly paid $1M to data extortion group Kairos

Ransom-ISAC reconstructed a full extortion case using leaked negotiation logs and blockchain tracing.

The victim was reportedly hit in May 2025, listed on Kairos’s leak site days later, and told the group held over 1.6 million files totaling around 2TB.

Kairos allegedly started at $3M, the victim countered as low as $100K, and the final payment landed at roughly $1M in Bitcoin.

The key detail: no ransomware sample, encryptor, or locker binary has been confidently linked to Kairos.

This was data theft, pressure, deadlines, and a promise of deletion that could not be technically verified.

BTC: bc1q0zkms9vuhp767q6yp3t4tj8fkellxz5h3dxgvl

I got caught in traffic on my way home yesterday.

As the farmer thanked me for waiting, he said I’d sleep well 😅.

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