Two firms recently told DataBreaches that about 30% or more of their clients pay ransom after a cyberattack. But you may get a different impression from other findings. The Actuary reports: Initial ransom demands by cyber attackers surged by 47% last year but record numbers of businesses declined to pay up, according to a specialist…
Ever since law enforcement announced the arrest of an administrator of the XSS.is forum, forum members watched threads disappear from the site, and then a seizure notice splash screen appeared. No administrator or moderator had made any statement about the arrest or situation despite pleas from forum members for some clarification, and attempts to discuss…
On December 6, 2023, the Medusa Blog added ACCU Reference Medical Laboratory to their leak site with some screenshots as proof of claims. Claiming to have 1.2 TB of data, Medusa demanded $1 million to delete or download the data. When no payment was forthcoming, they leaked the data on their website and Telegram channel…
Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper. The activity has been attributed by ESET to a hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango
Alexander Martin reports: The British government sanctioned 18 Russian military intelligence officers on Friday, alleging their units were responsible for cyber reconnaissance operations including those leading to hundreds of murders through the targeting of civilians in Ukraine. Three units of the GRU have been sanctioned, alongside officers whom the British authorities said were responsible for…
This is a multi-part interview with the individual known as “Nam3L3ss” who leaked more than 100 databases on a popular hacking forum and will soon be leaking many more. Read the Preface. In this part, we talk about his background and what motivated him to do what he does. In Part 2, we talk about…
As seen on the SLSH Telegram channel: We would like to announce that we have gained full access to REsecurity systems 🙂 We took everything: – All internal chats and logs – Full employee data: names, emails, tokens, etc.. – Threat intel related, reports, scrapes, and all management files – Complete client list with details……
