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RansomHouse claims ransomware attack on Université Paris-Saclay – 1TB allegedly stolen
This morning, ransomware gang RansomHouse claimed the recent August 2024 attack on the Université Paris-Saclay. It alleges to have stolen 1TB of data. The French university confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack on August 11 and that the national security agency (ANSSI) had been notified. It said it would not pay a ransom. And, in its latest update…
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ADT discloses second breach in 2 months, hacked via stolen credentials
Home and small business security company ADT disclosed it suffered a breach after threat actors gained access to its systems using stolen credentials and exfiltrated employee account data. ADT is a public American company that specializes in security and smart home solutions for residential and small business customers. The firm employs over 14,000 people and has an annual revenue of $4.98…
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Ransomware gang BlackSuit claims attack on Charles Darwin School – student data stolen
Overnight, ransomware gang BlackSuit claimed the recent attack on London’s Charles Darwin School. It alleges to have stolen over 200GB of data which includes information on students and employees, as well as financial data. It has given the school until the end of today to pay up before the data is released. On September 6, the school’s headteacher, Aston Smith,…
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Researcher sued for sharing data stolen by ransomware with media
The City of Columbus, Ohio, has filed a lawsuit against security researcher David Leroy Ross, aka Connor Goodwolf, accusing him of illegally downloading and disseminating data stolen from the City’s IT network and leaked by the Rhysida ransomware gang. Columbus, the capital and most populous (2,140,000) city in Ohio, suffered a ransomware attack on July 18, 2024, which caused various…
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New Voldemort malware abuses Google Sheets to store stolen data
A new malware campaign is spreading a previously undocumented backdoor named “Voldemort” to organizations worldwide, impersonating tax agencies from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. As per a Proofpoint report, the campaign started on August 5, 2024, and has disseminated over 20,000 emails to over 70 targeted organizations, reaching 6,000 in a single day at the peak of its activity. Over…
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Ransomware gang Brain Cipher adds the Réunion des Musées Nationaux to its data leak site – 300GB of data stolen
This morning, ransomware gang Brain Cipher posted the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) to its data leak site, alleging to have stolen over 300GB of data. This follows RMN’s systems suffering a crippling attack during the Paris Olympics in early August 2024. Brain Cipher was rumored to be the gang behind the attack at the time. In its initial statement,…
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Toyota confirms breach after stolen data leaks on hacking forum
Toyota confirmed that its network was breached after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from the company’s systems on a hacking forum. “We are aware of the situation. The issue is limited in scope and is not a system wide issue,” Toyota told BleepingComputer when asked to validate the threat actor’s claims. The company added…
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Russian who sold 300,000 stolen credentials gets 40 months in prison
Georgy Kavzharadze, a 27-year-old Russian national, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for selling login credentials for over 300,000 accounts on Slilpp, the largest online marketplace of stolen logins, until its seizure in June 2021. In a Wednesday press release, the U.S. Department of Justice said that Kavzharadze (also known as TeRorPP, Torqovec, and PlutuSS) sold vast amounts…
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