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Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms

August 5, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amerisourcebergen corporation, bleeping computer, brett stone-gross, cencora, dark angels, Data Breaches, dunghill leak, Ransomware, sabre, sophos, sysco, threatlabz, zscaler

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:52:35 +0000

A ransomware group called Dark Angels made headlines this past week when it was revealed the crime group recently received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company. Security experts say the Dark Angels have been around since 2021, but the group doesn’t get much press because they work alone and maintain a low profile, picking one target at a time and favoring mass data theft over disrupting the victim’s operations.

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It Might Be Our Data, But It’s Not Our Breach

August 11, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alex holden, AT&T, at&t internet, bellsouth.net, bleeping computer, Data Breaches, databreaches.net, Hold Security, lawrence abrams, new jersey cybersecurity & communications integration cell, sbcglobal.net, shinyhunters, T-Mobile, The Coming Storm, u-verse, white house market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:45:31 +0000

A cybersecurity firm says it has intercepted a large, unique stolen data set containing the names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, Social Security Numbers and dates of birth on nearly 23 million Americans. The firm’s analysis of the data suggests it corresponds to current and former customers of AT&T. The telecommunications giant stopped short of saying the data wasn’t theirs, but it maintains the records do not appear to have come from its systems and may be tied to a previous data incident at another company.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office

March 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bentley, bleeping computer, conti, emotet, hof, lawrence abrams, mango, Ne'er-Do-Well News, palo alto networks, Ransomware, reverse, ryuk, stern, The Coming Storm, trickbot

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 17:49:52 +0000

Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. In Part II of this series we’ll explore what it’s like to work for Conti, as described by the Conti employees themselves.