H-ISAC, Microsoft and Fortra fight ransomware in court

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a court order on March 31 allowing Microsoft, Fortra and the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center to remove illegal copies of Cobalt Strike so they can no longer be used by ransomware-as-a-service operations, such as Conti and LockBit.

WHY IT MATTERS

Legacy copies of Fortra’s Cobalt Strike, as well as Microsoft software, have been abused by cybercriminals in their…