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Federal cops have ‘a very particular set of skills’
The Register
Anyone following the recent arrest of Pepijn van der Stap, the previously convicted hacker known as “Umbreon,” was likely shocked today when the prosecution announced that he was being charged with two counts of attempted incitement to murder. Here’s what we know so far. A 24-year-old Dutch national who previously served time for hacking-related crimes……
DataBreaches.net
Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.
TechCrunch
The arrest of a 24-year-old man in Amsterdam, which occurred a week before ShinyHunters hacked the FBI, marks a major turning point for law enforcement’s push to track down the group’s members.
CyberScoop
Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them.
SecurityWeek
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. “It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters,” the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual…
The Hacker News
Dutch police confirm the arrest of a 24-year-old Amsterdam man as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. Dutch police confirmed this week that a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested earlier this month as part of an investigation into the cybercrime group ShinyHunters. The suspect appears before Rotterdam District Court today, September…
Security Affairs
Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems.
BleepingComputer
Dutch police have confirmed that a 24-year-old Amsterdam man arrested earlier this month was detained as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group.
BleepingComputer
Numerous major law firms have fallen prey to the Silent Ransom Group this year. Now DataBreaches provides exclusive details on SRG’s recent attacks on Hogan Lovells Cadwalader. Yes, that’s “attacks,” plural. When New York City’s oldest law firm, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, merged with Hogan Lovells in 2022, it combined two powerhouse firms. Yet despite……
DataBreaches.net
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers.
BleepingComputer
Exploit.in data shows how a 2005 cybercrime forum helped shape today’s ransomware ecosystem, with users and practices surviving for decades. Ransomnews researcher Dancho Danchev dug up a database dump of Exploit.in covering its first three years, from February 2005 to May 2008, and the numbers inside it tell a story about Russian cybercrime that enforcement…
Security Affairs