FBI Declassifies $1.8B Maze Ransomware Bust — 26 Servers Seized in Lisbon Data Vault

Inside Operation Iron Curtain: how FBI analysts cracked a $1.8B criminal franchise hidden behind a web-hosting business in Lisbon's Alfama district. Declassified court documents reveal the 14-month investigation that mapped 847 victim payments across 41 countries — and the turned affiliate known as Vector-9 whose cooperation recovered decryption keys for 612 victims including 14 U.S. hospitals. For the first time: the exact technical playbook used to penetrate Maze's air-gapped server cluster, the maintenance bypass code that ended a billion-dollar empire, and why the syndicate's leadership had no idea the operation was compromised until federal agents were already inside. #FBI #Ransomware #Cybercrime #OperationIronCurtain #bitcoin Subscribe for more federal investigations