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Former Israeli cybercompany employee pleads guilty to extorting millions from US companies

The Jerusalem Post reports: A former employee of the Israeli cybersecurity company Sygnia pleaded guilty to federal offences in the US for being involved in ransomware attacks in an attempt to extort millions of dollars from companies around the US. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, who served as a cyber incident response supervisor at the company, admitted he was part of a years-long scheme targeting businesses across America.  According to federal court records, both pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce through

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Hacking group ‘ShinyHunters’ threatens to expose premium users of sex site Pornhub

Reuters reports: The hacking group “ShinyHunters” said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it. Although Reuters could not immediately establish the scope, scale, or details of the breach, the hackers provided a sample of the data which the news agency was able to partially authenticate. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here. At least

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France arrests 22-year-old over Interior Ministry hack

The Record reports: French authorities arrested a 22-year-old on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a hack of the country’s Interior Ministry that saw the perpetrators access several email accounts and dozens of confidential documents. The ministry confirmed what was described as a serious incident after a user claimed credit for a hack on the cybercrime website BreachForums. A government spokesperson said the “reality and scope” of that post “are currently being subjected to in-depth verification as part of

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SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted

Bleeping Computer has been reporting on ShinyHunters’ latest activities. Their newest reporting includes incidents involving SoundCloud and PornHub. Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users’ email addresses and profile information. The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when connecting via VPN, with attempts resulting in the

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NHS cyber breach exposes 169,000 files, including records linked to King Charles’s home

Geo News reports: Russian hackers have sent shockwaves through Britain’s health system after gaining access to hundreds of thousands of sensitive NHS documents some of them linked to the Royal Household. The cyber breach, blamed on a ransomware gang exploiting a flaw in NHS software, has resulted in around 169,000 confidential files being dumped on the dark web.  According to reports, the stolen data includes records connected to multiple royal residences, among them Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham and King

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LATEST NEWS ON HACKING, CYBER SECURITY & DATA BREACH

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Former Israeli cybercompany employee pleads guilty to extorting millions from US companies

The Jerusalem Post reports: A former employee of the Israeli cybersecurity company Sygnia pleaded guilty to federal offences in the US for being involved in ransomware attacks in an attempt to extort millions of dollars from companies around the US. Ryan Clifford Goldberg, who served as a cyber incident response supervisor at the company, admitted he was part of a years-long scheme targeting businesses across America.  According to federal court records, both pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to interfere with commerce through

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Hacking group ‘ShinyHunters’ threatens to expose premium users of sex site Pornhub

Reuters reports: The hacking group “ShinyHunters” said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it. Although Reuters could not immediately establish the scope, scale, or details of the breach, the hackers provided a sample of the data which the news agency was able to partially authenticate. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here. At least

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France arrests 22-year-old over Interior Ministry hack

The Record reports: French authorities arrested a 22-year-old on Wednesday as part of an investigation into a hack of the country’s Interior Ministry that saw the perpetrators access several email accounts and dozens of confidential documents. The ministry confirmed what was described as a serious incident after a user claimed credit for a hack on the cybercrime website BreachForums. A government spokesperson said the “reality and scope” of that post “are currently being subjected to in-depth verification as part of

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SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted

Bleeping Computer has been reporting on ShinyHunters’ latest activities. Their newest reporting includes incidents involving SoundCloud and PornHub. Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users’ email addresses and profile information. The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when connecting via VPN, with attempts resulting in the

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