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Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed the arrest and extradition to Germany of a Russian national accused of being involved in the Qilin ransomware gang.
The Record
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The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI’s jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants. The FBI has not named…
The Hacker News
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In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.
Dark Reading
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The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director Kash Patel announced Friday.
BleepingComputer
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Attackers are increasingly ditching ransomware in favor of stealing company data and threatening to leak it. Let’s look at why this is happening and how businesses can protect themselves.
Kaspersky
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The owner of a ransomware remediation company is facing trial for defrauding customers. Zohar Pinhasi, also known as “Zack Silver” and “Zack Green,” has been arraigned in New York on wire fraud charges for allegedly defrauding clients of his ransomware remediation company, MonsterCloud. Pinhasi falsely claimed he could recover documents encrypted by ransomware without paying…
CSO Online UK
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“We will continue to work closely with our partners to disrupt what’s left of the ShinyHunters group and their associates, no matter where they operate,” FBI Director Kash Patel said.
The Record
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Germany has arrested a Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware group following extradition from Japan earlier this month.
BleepingComputer
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Zohar Pinhasi stands accused of duping distressed ransomware victims by offering fake cyber services that he could not provide.
Computer Weekly
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On Tuesday, cybersecurity professionals began investigating an onion site that appeared to contain internal chat files from Silent Ransom Group. On Thursday, Silent Ransom Group said the leak was fake, but is it? A bespoke site called “Luna Moth Files” appeared Tuesday morning. The identity of the person who published the data is unknown, as……
DataBreaches.net
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IDC Frontier, a major Japanese cloud and digital infrastructure company, disclosed that its IDCF Cloud service was targeted in a ransomware attack that caused an outage at a data center cluster serving the eastern part of the country.
BleepingComputer
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Zohar Pinhasi allegedly deceived ransomware recovery clients into a payment scheme disguised as a specialized service that helped victims avoid paying cybercriminals.
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