{
  "id": 12820925,
  "title": "MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/monstercloud-owner-accused-of-billing-over-19m-while-secretly-paying",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-08T07:41:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/monstercloud-owner-accused-of-billing.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wire",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}