Low-level cybercriminals are pouncing on CrowdStrike-connected outage
The malicious activity comes as CrowdStrike customers continue to recover from the July 18 outage.
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Cybercrime
Police nab 17-year-old linked to group behind MGM Resorts cyberattack
A 17-year-old arrested by British police Thursday is believed to be a member of the cybercriminal gang behind last year’s ransomware attack on MGM Resorts and a…
300 arrests made in crackdown of West African cyber fraud group
The takedown of the Nigeria-based international cyber gang including millions in seized assets and hundreds of blocked bank accounts.
CDK hack shows SEC disclosure standards are unsettled
The early application of the regulatory agency’s new cybersecurity reporting rules reveal that materiality is in the eye of the beholder.
Wallets tied to CDK ransom group received $25 million two days after attack
Researchers say the wallets that received the large bitcoin payment are tied to BlackSuit affiliates.
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Phone, text message records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers stolen
The pilfered content, which contains aggregated metadata, was taken via the company’s Snowflake instance.
Allan Liska on why it’s time to ban ransomware payments; Russian info ops
On the 50th episode of Safe Mode, Recorded Future’s Allan Liska sits down with host Elias Groll to make the case for banning ransomware payments. CyberScoop reporter…
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data
A politically-oriented cybercrime group carried out the attack in response to Heritage’s Project 2025.
US, international authorities seize Russian AI bot farm
FBI officials say that software relying on AI to generate bot accounts was developed under a top editor at Russian state-owned news outlet RT.
RansomHub says it published Florida health department data
The hacking group RansomHub claims to have published 100 gigabytes of data stolen from the Florida Department of Health after it declined to pay a ransom.
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