Tag: group
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Clop Ransomware Responds to ShinyHunters Amid Eight-Figure Demands
Clop responds to ShinyHunters after its leak site takeover as the group demands an eight-figure payment, interest and a public apology in their escalating feud. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/clop-ransomware-responds-shinyhunters-demands/
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Cyber Extortion War: ShinyHunters Holds Rival Clop to Ransom
Website Defacement Tied to Alleged Theft of Oracle E-Business Suite Exploits Russian cyber extortion group Cl0p appears to be under fire from Western rival ShinyHunters, which defaced Cl0p’s data-leak site, dropped names of the group’s alleged members, and demanded a large ransom in response to alleged death threats and the theft of its Oracle E-Business…
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Cyber Extortion War: ShinyHunters Holds Rival Clop to Ransom
Website Defacement Tied to Alleged Theft of Oracle E-Business Suite Exploits Russian cyber extortion group Cl0p appears to be under fire from Western rival ShinyHunters, which defaced Cl0p’s data-leak site, dropped names of the group’s alleged members, and demanded a large ransom in response to alleged death threats and the theft of its Oracle E-Business…
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ShinyHunters cybercrime gang takes over Cl0p ransomware site, demands extortion payment
The ShinyHunters extortion group hijacked the dark web leak site of the prolific Cl0p ransomware gang, according to material posted on the site over the weekend. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/shinyhunters-clop-cyberattack-website
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ChainScript: the RAT that hides its command server inside a blockchain contract
Blackpoint uncovers ChainScript, a Node.js RAT that queries a Polygon smart contract to find and rotate its command server. Blackpoint’s Adversary Pursuit Group was chasing a ClickFix campaign spreading an unknown RAT namend ChainScript. The malicious code is a previously undocumented Node.js remote access trojan that hides its command server on a public blockchain. The…
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NightEagle Uses BlueKeep and DCSync to Move Toward Active Directory Domain Controllers
NightEagle, an espionage-focused threat group also tracked as APT-Q-95, has expanded its operations from Asian targets to Russian organizations, using a layered intrusion chain that culminates in attempts to compromise Active Directory domain controllers. The campaign illustrates a familiar but dangerous enterprise compromise pattern: attackers do not need a novel zero-day exploit when exposed remote…
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ShinyHunters Claim Hack of Rival Ransomware Gang Clop
ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for hacking the Clop ransomware group, defacing its leak site and alleging theft of key operational data First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/shinyhunters-claim-hack-of-clop/
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PAYLOAD Ransomware Abuses Active Directory Group Policy to Disrupt Entire Windows Domain
A ransomware incident in which attackers used Active Directory Group Policy to disrupt operations without deploying a Windows encryptor or leaving malware running on endpoints. In April 2026, the attackers accessed a FortiGate SSL VPN using compromised domain credentials, then gained domain-admin-equivalent rights. PAYLOAD Ransomware On April 13, Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) created…
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ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript.”ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66, while presenting itself as Spotify, Zoom Workplace, and Microsoft Teams software,” Blackpoint Adversary Pursuit Group (APG) First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to article: thehackernews.com/2026/09/clickfix-lures-deploy-chainscript-rat.html
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An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP’s inner circle. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/an-undercover-google-analyst-infiltrated-a-notorious-supply-chain-hacking-gang/
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North Korean WaterPlum hackers infected 30,000 devices worldwide
A joint law enforcement advisory warns that the North Korean hacking group WaterPlum compromised at least 30,000 devices worldwide from December 2025 through July 2026 and transferred more than $10.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency to North Korea. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/north-korean-waterplum-hackers-infected-30-000-devices-worldwide/
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China Hackers Hit Latin American Governments With Backdoor
ESET Says FamousSparrow Shifted Nearly All Targeting to Latin America. A Chinese espionage group has deployed a previously undocumented backdoor against government entities in eight Latin American countries and territories, including Puerto Rico, in a campaign researchers say tracks with U.S. pressure on Chinese investments across the region. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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North Korean hackers infect thousands of devices across 100 countries as part of ‘WaterPlum’ campaign
The FBI and Defense Department partnered with Japan’s National Police Agency and law enforcement agencies in Australia and Germany on a new advisory about “WaterPlum”, a group of cyber actors allegedly stealing cryptocurrency from job applicants by posing as AI or blockchain companies. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/north-korean-hackers-infect-thousands-of-devices-waterplum-scheme
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/an-undercover-google-analyst-infiltrated-a-notorious-supply-chain-hacking-gang/
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An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/an-undercover-google-analyst-infiltrated-a-notorious-supply-chain-hacking-gang/
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Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan.The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tools called RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH. The activity has been codenamed Operation…
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Hacking group ‘NightEagle’ targeting China’s high-tech sector expands operations to Russia
Over the past year, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it investigated several incidents involving the group at Russian businesses. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/hacking-group-nighteagle-expands-russia-china
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JADEPUFFER Evolves Agentic Ransomware to Target AI Models and Training Data
Tags: ai, attack, cyber, data, data-breach, extortion, group, infrastructure, intelligence, ransomware, threat, trainingJADEPUFFER, the agentic threat actor first linked to an autonomous ransomware operation against exposed Langflow infrastructure, has evolved its tooling to target artificial intelligence models, training datasets, and vector data. Its latest payload, ENCFORGE, marks a shift from conventional database extortion toward destruction-focused attacks on high-value AI and machine-learning assets. The group’s ENCFORGE locker targets…
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Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before parliamentary vote
An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russia’s election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/russia-election-hackers-breach
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FamousSparrow Deploys New SparroWocky Backdoor Against Latin American Governments
China-aligned advanced persistent threat group FamousSparrow has replaced its long-running SparrowDoor implant with a new modular C++ backdoor, SparroWocky, in a sustained cyberespionage campaign against government entities across Latin America. ESET says the malware has been active in the region since at least August 2025, following a sharp shift in the group’s victim targeting that…
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Ransomware incidents in Japan in the first half of 2026: Investigation of The Gentlemen’s infrastructure and evidence of Qilin’s AI use
Ransomware incidents in Japan rose 4.7% year over year. The Gentlemen was the most active group, with leak-site listings more than doubling from January to July. Qilin ranked second and appeared to use AI, while SMEs with capital under JPY 1 billion represented 80% of victims. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/ransomware-incidents-in-japan-in-the-first-half-of-2026/
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Chinese hackers use SparroWocky malware in govt espionage attacks
The China-linked espionage group FamousSparrow has been using a new backdoor named SparroWocky in attacks on government organizations in Latin America. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-hackers-use-sparrowocky-malware-in-govt-espionage-attacks/
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NightEagle Hackers Abuse Microsoft Dev Tunnels and GhostContainer to Breach Russian Companies
The NightEagle advanced persistent threat group, tracked as APT-Q-95, has expanded its operations to target businesses in Russia, combining stolen VPN credentials, a stealthy Microsoft Exchange backdoor, and legitimate tunneling technologies to move through victim networks. Researchers from Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team said the group has been active since at least 2023 and previously…
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NightEagle Hackers Target Russian Companies Using GhostContainer Backdoor
The NightEagle advanced persistent threat group, tracked as APT-Q-95, has expanded its operations to target businesses in Russia, combining stolen VPN credentials, a stealthy Microsoft Exchange backdoor, and legitimate tunneling technologies to move through victim networks. Researchers from Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team said the group has been active since at least 2023 and previously…
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A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage
Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady when the CFO asks … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/17/flat-cybersecurity-budget-video/
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Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by critical blow from a cyberattack
Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/nonprofit-that-tracks-meteors-taken-down-by-critical-blow-from-a-cyberattack/
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Operation RapidRust: APT36 Deploys RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH
IntroductionIn August 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz observed new activity by the Pakistan-nexus threat actor APT36 in a campaign we’re tracking as Operation RapidRust. Since our last publication about the group’s activity in January 2026, APT36 has maintained a high operational tempo and updated… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/operation-rapidrust-apt36-deploys-rustyshade-rustymove-psnatch-and-bashnatch/
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Three Threat Groups Target Russian Enterprises With Backdoors, Ransomware, and Wipers
Enterprises in Russia have emerged as the target of three threat activity clusters tracked as NightEagle, Hacking Cat, and Toy Ghouls, according to multiple reports from Kaspersky.The cybersecurity vendor said it has identified attacks mounted by NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95), a threat actor known to be active since at least 2023, that involve new techniques for…
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Phishing-Tool nutzt KI für voll automatisierte Vishing-Angriffe
Sicherheitsforscher von Group IB sind auf neue Entwicklungen im Bereich des Voice-Phishings (Vishing) gestoßen. Die in die Phishing-as-a-Service-(PhaaS-) Plattform ‘Balonx” integrierte Anwendung ‘CallFlow” kann mithilfe von mehreren KI-Systemen Phishing-Anrufe ohne menschliche Beteiligung führen. Dies könnte die Anzahl um ein Vielfaches erhöhen. Momentan konzentrieren sich die durch Callflow operierten Vishing-Angriffe vor allem auf Mexiko, eine weltweite…
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Smishing Triad Hackers Use JWR Phishing Kit to Steal Cards, OTPs and Bank Credentials
A large-scale SMS phishing campaign linked to the Smishing Triad is using a sophisticated phishing kit dubbed JWR to harvest payment-card data, one-time passwords, online-banking credentials, identity information, and digital-wallet logins. Group-IB attributed the activity to an operator sub-cluster tracked as Outsider, which appears to operate as a customer within the wider phishing-as-a-service ecosystem rather…