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Extortion crews have their eyes on high-value AI data, Google warns
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Companies 'don't want their IP exposed, so they're willing to pay'
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Helix claims nearly a million files, while the logistics biz says operations never hit the brakes
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Cybercriminals still allowed to walk into office blocks and convince staff to let them plug in their own thumb drives
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Possible link to Mr. Raccoon's claimed Adobe break-in A new extortion crew has targeted “several dozen high-value” corporations through phishing and helpdesk social-engineering, according to Google.…
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Don't laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden if a victim didn’t pay to protect its data – a warning that may be an indicator of tough times in the ransomware world for some, at least.…
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Anydesk is its access tool of choice A new extortion gang called Mad Liberator uses social engineering and the remote-access tool Anydesk to steal organizations' data and then demand a ransom payment, according to Sophos X-Ops.…
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Invasion of the data snatchers The Snatch ransomware crew has listed on its dark-web site the Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs as one of its latest victims – as the Feds warn organizations to be on the lookout for indicators of compromise linked to the extortionist gang.…
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As yet another extortion crew Icarus exploits Salesforce-linked integrations
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Vendor confirms repo data exposure after Lapsus$ claims source code, secrets dump Software security testing outfit Checkmarx has become the latest organization caught up in an ongoing attack on security-tool providers. The biz said data posted online appears to have come from one of its GitHub repositories after the Lapsus$ extortion crew claimed to have dumped the company’s source code, secrets, and other sensitive data.…
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Crims 'creating a snowball effect' across open source projects Thousands of organizations' cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that compromised the open source scanners are working with notorious extortion crews like Lapsus$.… RSAC 2026