A so-called reward of $50,000 from the European Police Organization (Europol) to track down the Russian Ransomware gang Qilin's administrators is actually just a Telegram eyegash. This false reward message has deceived several cybersecurity news outlets into mistakenly believing that Europol would pay rewards to anyone who could provide information on Qilin's two administrators, Haise and XORacle. It is claimed that these two are responsible for "coordinating affiliated 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 reward is indeed a "scam" and that the agency has never issued such a reward.