CoinWorld reported that a so-called $50,000 bounty by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) to track the administrators of the Russian ransomware group Qilin is actually a Telegram scam. This false bounty message deceived several cybersecurity news outlets, leading them to mistakenly believe that Europol would pay a reward to anyone who could provide information about Qilin's two administrators, Haise and XORacle. It is alleged that these two are responsible for 'coordinating affiliate organizations and overseeing ransomware activities,' and Europol is seeking intelligence that could 'directly lead to the identification or location of these administrators.' However, Europol confirmed to Security Week that this so-called bounty is in fact a 'scam,' and the agency has never issued such a reward.