Latest Extortion news

US govt offers $10 million bounty for info on Clop ransomware

The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced up to a $10 million bounty yesterday for information linking the Clop ransomware attacks to a foreign government.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 17, 2023
- 04:06 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - June 16th 2023 - Wave of Extortion

The MOVEit Transfer extortion attacks continue to dominate the news cycle, with the Clop ransomware operation now extorting organizations breached in the attacks.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 16, 2023
- 05:28 PM
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Clop ransomware gang starts extorting MOVEit data-theft victims

The Clop ransomware gang has started extorting companies impacted by the MOVEit data theft attacks by listing them on a data leak site, a common extortion tactic used as a precursor for the public leaking of stolen data.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 15, 2023
- 11:39 AM
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Clop ransomware likely testing MOVEit zero-day since 2021

The Clop ransomware gang has been looking for ways to exploit a now-patched zero-day in the MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer (MFT) solution since 2021, according to Kroll security experts.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 08, 2023
- 06:45 PM
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Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a rising trend of malicious actors creating deepfake nude content from social media images to perform sextortion attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- June 06, 2023
- 04:43 PM
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Clop ransomware claims responsibility for MOVEit extortion attacks

The Clop ransomware gang has told BleepingComputer they are behind the MOVEit Transfer data-theft attacks, where a zero-day vulnerability was exploited to breach servers belonging to "hundreds of companies" and steal data.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 05, 2023
- 05:27 PM
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Microsoft links Clop ransomware gang to MOVEit data-theft attacks

Microsoft has linked the Clop ransomware gang to recent attacks exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform to steal data from organizations.
- Lawrence Abrams
- June 05, 2023
- 08:54 AM
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Former Ubiquiti dev who extorted the firm gets six years in prison

Nickolas Sharp, a former senior developer of Ubiquiti, was sentenced to six years in prison for stealing company data, attempting to extort his employer, and aiding the publication of misleading news articles that severely impacted the firm's market capitalization.
- Bill Toulas
- May 11, 2023
- 10:55 AM
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Cybersecurity firm Dragos discloses cybersecurity incident, extortion attempt

Industrial cybersecurity company Dragos today disclosed what it describes as a "cybersecurity event" after a known cybercrime gang attempted to breach its defenses and infiltrate the internal network to encrypt devices.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 10, 2023
- 11:48 AM
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Western Digital says hackers stole customer data in March cyberattack

Western Digital has taken its store offline and sent customers data breach notifications after confirming that hackers stole sensitive personal information in a March cyberattack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 07, 2023
- 12:10 PM
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Meet Akira — A new ransomware operation targeting the enterprise

The new Akira ransomware operation has slowly been building a list of victims as they breach corporate networks worldwide, encrypt files, and then demand million-dollar ransoms.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 07, 2023
- 09:16 AM
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Ransomware gang hijacks university alert system to issue threats

The Avos ransomware gang hijacked Bluefield University's emergency broadcast system, "RamAlert," to send students and staff SMS texts and email alerts that their data was stolen and would soon be released.
- Bill Toulas
- May 04, 2023
- 11:21 AM
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Fake ransomware gang targets U.S. orgs with empty data leak threats

Fake extortionists are piggybacking on data breaches and ransomware incidents, threatening U.S. companies with publishing or selling allegedly stolen data unless they get paid.
- Ionut Ilascu
- April 01, 2023
- 11:59 AM
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Crown Resorts confirms ransom demand after GoAnywhere breach

Crown Resorts, Australia's largest gambling and entertainment company, has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after its GoAnywhere secure file-sharing server was breached using a zero-day vulnerability.
- Bill Toulas
- March 28, 2023
- 12:26 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - March 24th 2023 - Clop overload

This week's news has been dominated by the Clop ransomware gang extorting companies whose GoAnywhere services were breached using a zero-day vulnerability.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 24, 2023
- 05:32 PM
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Procter & Gamble confirms data theft via GoAnywhere zero-day

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble has confirmed a data breach affecting an undisclosed number of employees after its GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform was compromised in early February.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 24, 2023
- 01:54 PM
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Ferrari discloses data breach after receiving ransom demand

Ferrari has disclosed a data breach following a ransom demand received after attackers gained access to some of the company's IT systems.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 20, 2023
- 07:20 PM
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The Week in Ransomware - March 17th 2023 - Shifting to data extortion

The fallout from the Clop ransomware attacks on GoAnywhere platforms has become apparent this week, with the threat actors starting to extort victims on their data leak site and companies confirming breaches.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 17, 2023
- 07:01 PM
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BianLian ransomware gang shifts focus to pure data extortion

The BianLian ransomware group has shifted its focus from encrypting its victims' files to only exfiltrating data found on compromised networks and using them for extortion.
- Bill Toulas
- March 16, 2023
- 06:10 PM
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Rubrik confirms data theft in GoAnywhere zero-day attack

Cybersecurity company Rubrik has confirmed that its data was stolen using a zero-day vulnerability in the Fortra GoAnywhere secure file transfer platform.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 14, 2023
- 04:43 PM
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