FBI Director Questioned Over Kaseya Decryption Key

FBI Director Christopher Wray faced questions during a Senate hearing Tuesday concerning a published report that the bureau withheld a decryption key that agents obtained from the ransomware gang that targeted software firm Kaseya for almost three weeks as part of its ongoing investigation into the incident. During a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., who is the committee chairman, questioned Wray about a Washington Post report that the FBI had obtained the decryption key used by the REvil ransomware gang but withheld sharing it with victims of the attack as the investigation continued.