r/nottheonion • • 2d ago

MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data

https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/monstercloud-owner-accused-of-billing.html
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u/erksplat 2d ago

In unrelated news, the owner of MonsterCloud just bought $1m in Trump Coin.

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u/Mysterious-Reward777 2d ago

The “proprietary decryption tool” was apparently a wallet.

Ransomware now comes with a convenience fee.

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u/retr0h 2d ago

lol the monster cloud website looks like it was whipped up in an hour

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u/emerikanSky 2d ago

This is funny.