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Why you should always be wary of insider threats: A disgruntled employee at a US industrial firm deleted backups and locked IT admins out of workstations in a failed data extortion attempt
A disgruntled IT worker at a national industrial company in the US has been arrested after he launched an extortion campaign targeting his former employer in 2023. Daniel Rhyne was a core infrastructure engineer at an unnamed US-based industrial firm, and attempted to extort his company for $750,000 worth of Bitcoin. According to a press release issued by the US…
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Everything you need to know about RansomHub, the new force in the digital extortion industry
Ransomware collective RansomHub has compromised hundreds of critical infrastructure organizations in the US since emerging in early 2024, prompting a new warning from law enforcement groups. The FBI, CISA, Department of Health and Human Services, as well as the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), issued a joint advisory providing businesses with guidance on the group’s tactics, techniques, and…
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Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer. According to court documents, company employees received a ransom email titled “Your Network Has Been Penetrated” on November 25, around 4:44 PM EST. The email claimed that all IT…
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