ShinyHunters Hits the FBI, Fake LastPass Installers, and a $459M Google Fine: This Week's Cybersecurity Chaos
It’s been a busy week in cybersecurity, starting off with two notable breaches from our old friends ShinyHunters. This week, we reported that the group hacked CLOP, a ransomware group that ShinyHunters says stole a method from them to exploit a vulnerability in Oracle’s business software. ShinyHunters is demanding that the ransomware group pay a ransom itself, which I can't help but find funny.
- ▪It’s been a busy week in cybersecurity, starting off with two notable breaches from our old friends ShinyHunters.
- ▪This week, we reported that the group hacked CLOP, a ransomware group that ShinyHunters says stole a method from them to exploit a vulnerability in Oracle’s business software.
- ▪ShinyHunters is demanding that the ransomware group pay a ransom itself, which I can't help but find funny.
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It’s been a busy week in cybersecurity, starting off with two notable breaches from our old friends ShinyHunters. This week, we reported that the group hacked CLOP, a ransomware group that ShinyHunters says stole a method from them to exploit a vulnerability in Oracle’s business software. ShinyHunters is demanding that the ransomware group pay a ransom itself, which I can't help but find funny. ShinyHunters also breached the FBI this week, extracting data on, in its own words, “very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents,” and people who used the FBI’s jobs portal to apply for work. Putting aside the magnitude of the breach for a moment, it should be alarming that the FBI’s security was lax enough to let this happen.
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