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[Link] Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

A coalition of international law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Department of Justice have seized RaidForums, a nexus for a wealth of stolen data and hacks, and arrested the site’s administrator, the DOJ announced on Tuesday.

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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US

Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com

US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.

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[Link] Apple Sues NSO Group For Hacking Its Users

Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com

The tech giant’s lawsuit is just the latest in a string of bad news for NSO in the last few weeks.

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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram

Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com

Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.

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[Link] Hackers Apologize to Arab Royal Families for Leaking Their Data

Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com

Among the data Conti leaked, there were sensitive files belonging to celebrities like David Beckham, Oprah Winfrey, and Donald Trump, according to The Daily Mail. There was also, according to the hackers themselves, information belonging to the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi royal families. 

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[Link] FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog,” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the group’s disaffected former leader.

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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts

Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com

Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.

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[Link] Recycled Cobalt Strike key pairs show many crooks are using same cloned installation

Read: 25/10/2021 www.theregister.com

Around 1,500 Cobalt Strike beacons uploaded to VirusTotal were reusing the same RSA keys from a cracked version of the software, according to a security researcher who pored through the malware repository.

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[Link] Ransomware Gang Says the Real Ransomware Gang Is the Federal Government

Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com

On Friday, a competing ransomware gang that calls itself Conti released a statement titled “ReviLives,” in support of the REvil gang, which was the target of the international operation.

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[Link] Sinclair Broadcast 'Disrupted’ by Ransomware Attack

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

The TV giant Sinclair Broadcast Group said it was hacked.  According to a press release on Monday, the company said it detected a ransomware attack on Saturday.

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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations

Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com

Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.

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[Link] Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan.

Read: 26/8/2021 www.nbcnews.com

Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they’re fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum.

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[Link] Conti ransomware affiliate goes rogue, leaks “gang data”

Read: 15/8/2021 nakedsecurity.sophos.com

If you like a touch of irony in your cybersecurity news, then this has been the week for it. And if that’s not enough to bring a wry smile to your lips, then there’s more.

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[Link] Most wanted: The top 5 online crime gangs running ransomware

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

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