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April 5, 2021 Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim’s customers and partners directly, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up. This letter is from the Clop ransomware gang, putting pressure on a recent victim named on Clop’s dark web shaming site. “Good day! If you received this letter, you are a customer, buyer, partner or employee of [victim],” the missive reads. “The company has been hacked, da...

04 March 2021 I've investigated hundreds of data breaches over the years (there are 514 of them in Have I Been Pwned as I write this), and for the most part, the situation with Gab is just another day on the internet. But Gab is also different, having grown dramatically in recent months as an alternative to mainstream incumbent platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and drawing a crowd primarily focused on right wing American politics. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread about their alleged breach. I want to go back through that thread here, explain the thinking further and then provide s...

Japanese publisher Koei Tecmo has shut down its official websites in multiple regions following a cyber attack. “Due to the possibility of an external cyber attack on this website, it is temporarily closed as we investigate the issue,” reads a notice, which was first spotted by Bleeping Computer’s Lawrence Abrams on December 26th. The news started making rounds yesterday, and as of this writing, the websites are still down. According to a post on a hacker forum, the attackers have access to email addresses, passwords, IP addresses, user names, dates of birth, countries, and more. “The...

This Year in Ransomware Payouts (2020 Edition) The Highest Ransoms Paid by Organizations in 2020 LAST UPDATED ON DECEMBER 18, 2020 SLOW READ Ransomware has come to be a customary instrument in the arsenal of cybercriminals who routinely attack individuals and organizations. Under such circumstances, their victims experience financial damage either by ending up paying the ransom or by bearing the price of recovering from attacks. It’s now fairly obvious that becoming a ransomware target is no longer an “if”, but rather a “when” presumption. In a piece I wrote at the end of last year,...