Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2026
Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent Ransom Group doesn’t rely on encryption. No malware payload, no locked files, just phone calls and social engineering aimed almost entirely at law firms, and apparently it works extraordinarily well. A new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2026
Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a dark web marketplace can become a major criminal business, bringing together drug trafficking, stolen credentials, personal data and hacking tools. “A Virginia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2026
DOJ and FBI seized China-linked hacking tools Microscan and FishHub, linked to Integrity Tech and attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The Justice Department and FBI took down two hacking tools this week, Microscan and FishHub, both built and run by a Beijing-based company with direct government contracts. The tools were used to scan, and in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2026
Hunt.io traced BraZetsu ‘s infrastructure and found that hosting patterns and certificate data remained useful after published IOCs became outdated. Group-IB researchers published a detailed writeup on BraZetsu back on August 31, naming it a Python framework compiled with Nuitka and tying it to a Brazilian actor called Exilware with high confidence. Hunt.io checked whether […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2026
MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar Pinhasi, the owner of Florida-based MonsterCloud, was charged this week with wire fraud. Federal prosecutors say his clients were scammed twice during the same ransomware crisis. Pinhasi (50) also used the names “Zack Silver” and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2026
FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed, a credential-harvesting campaign against Fortinet firewalls, has compromised 86,644 devices and is locking out admins. The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service issued a joint advisory about FortiBleed, and the headline number alone is worth sitting with: more than 86,644 compromised Fortinet FortiGate devices across 194 countries, according to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2026
Accenture lost an FBI contract after a missed security patch exposed sensitive employee data, raising serious concerns over operational security. The FBI pulled an Accenture contractor off its account on Monday, and the reason is almost mundane compared to the damage it caused. One update didn’t get installed on time. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2026
Hackers accessed names, addresses and CPR numbers of 8.8 million people in Denmark through a third-party company with legal registry access. A hacker broke into the database that holds basically every identifying detail on every person connected to Denmark, living, dead, or long since moved away. Denmark’s digital affairs minister announced it Monday and didn’t […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2026
Iranian hacker Amir Barati faces extradition to the US over an alleged Iranian campaign that stole 31TB of data from universities. Amir Barati spent June 25 getting arrested in Montenegro, and this week a Montenegrin court signed off on sending him to the United States. He’s a dual Turkish and Iranian citizen, 40 years old, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2026
A suspected ShinyHunters member arrested in Jordan is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, helping investigators track down the group. A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the group that claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was picked up in Jordan this week. The man is Saif al-Din Khader, detained by Jordanian authorities, with two […]
