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Enforcing the "double-extortion" technique aka pay-now-or-get-breached emerged as a head-turner last year.  May 6th, 2022 is a recent example. The State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January. Conti, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) program, is one of the most notorious ransomware groups and has been responsible for

By Waqas Rustam Kurmaev and Partners work with the Russian government and other high-profile banking, media, oil, and industrial companies,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous Hacktivists Leak 1TB of Top Russian Law Firm Data

By Waqas Upon being alerted by security researcher Anurag Sen, the company rubbished the sensitivity of the matter by labeling… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scoop: Australian Trading Giant ACY Securities Exposed 60GB of User Data

By Deeba Ahmed The takedown resulted from a global law enforcement operation involving eleven countries, headed by Europol’s European Cybercrime Center.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities Take Down SMS-based FluBot Android Spyware

By Waqas The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) confirmed seizing three domains used by cybercriminals to sell stolen personal data… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI Seizes WeLeakInfo, IPStress and OVH-Booter Cybercrime Portals

Melissa Bischoping, security researcher with Tanium and Infosec Insiders columnist, urges firms to consider the upstream and downstream impact of "triple extortion" ransomware attacks.

Speaking at WithSecure’s annual conference, Mikko Hyppönen discussed the threat landscape between the two nations

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the seizure of three domains used by cybercriminals to trade stolen personal information and facilitate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for hire. This includes weleakinfo[.]to, ipstress[.]in, and ovh-booter[.]com, the former of which allowed its users to traffic hacked personal data and offered a searchable database

WeLeakInfo.to and two related domains let users search data stolen in more than 10,000 different breaches.

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