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Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singaporean who used the aliases "Anne Hathaway", "$$$" and "King Greavy", has pleaded guilty to leading a group that stole more than US $245 million in cryptocurrency from victims across the United States. According to the US Department of Justice, the group operated from October 2023 to May 2025 and recruited a…
The US Coast Guard and FBI boarded the Liberian-flagged supertanker VL Prosperity mid-voyage after its network may have been compromised by a foreign actor. The vessel was carrying about 2.3 million barrels of crude oil from Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal to Galveston, Texas. The Coast Guard reports no disruption to operations, injuries or e…
Episode 485 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Lianne Potter, covers several security stories. Researchers who wanted to test LG smart TVs for security risks got around the terms and conditions by setting up the TV while drunk, on the reasoning that they could not be bound by a contract agreed to while in…
A court in Zurich sentenced an unnamed 52-year-old Ukrainian man to 12 years and nine months in prison and banned him from Switzerland for ten years. The court found him to be the lead developer of the LockerGoga, MegaCortex and Nefilim ransomware families. Victims include Norsk Hydro, Stadler Rail (500 GB stolen in 2020, reported US $6 m…
Episode 486 of the Smashing Security podcast (host Graham Cluley, guest Dave Bittner) covers two main stories. An Auckland store's vibe-coded website reportedly let the public edit its inventory, and bogus listings appeared within hours, including socks, an $850 banana and New Zealand's national parks. A hacker collective also physically …
The US Department of Defense has confirmed a breach of the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), one of its main personnel data repositories. The breach exposed sensitive data on roughly 2.76 million people plus about 294,000 deceased individuals. Unauthorised users reportedly accessed files between October 2025 and 16 July 2026, and the i…
Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man on September 15 on suspicion of playing a role in the ShinyHunters criminal organisation. Police have not named him, but Brian Krebs identified him as Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker. A search of his laptop reportedly turned up details of two murders "to be committed abroad", which…
The FBI has publicly called on remaining ShinyHunters members to surrender. Cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman released a video thanking Dutch police for arresting a 24-year-old in Amsterdam. The FBI calls him "one of the alleged leaders" of the group, while Dutch police say only that he played a role. He is also suspected…
N0n is a newly emerged cyber extortion group first spotted in mid-September 2026. Within days it had published details of what it claimed were around a dozen victims on its dark web leak site, and the tally has continued to grow. The source is a short Fortra blog teaser by Graham Cluley that points to a fuller article. The teaser gives no…
The US State Department is offering up to US $10 million through Rewards for Justice for information on Zhang Yu, 44, a Chinese national accused of being a key figure in the state-sponsored group Hafnium (also tracked as Silk Typhoon). Zhang is described as a director at Shanghai Firetech Information Science and Technology, working under …
Episode 487 of the Smashing Security podcast covers the hijacking of Microsoft's official X (Twitter) account, which has 13 million followers. The attackers used a Clippy theme to promote a dubious crypto coin, and a corporate apology that circulated was not from Microsoft either. There was no ransomware or data theft. The episode also co…
Episode 488 of the Smashing Security podcast, hosted by Graham Cluley with guest Paul Ducklin, covers several recent security stories. The lead item is the arrest by the FBI of an executive at a ransomware negotiation firm, reportedly at a cybersecurity conference, in connection with the investigation into the ShinyHunters gang. The hosts…
The leaker CyberLeek, behind a series of leaks of Rockstar Games' upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6, has threatened to publish a complete, playable build of the game. The threat followed the release of about 25 minutes of new footage, which Eurogamer reviewed and judged to appear legitimate, noting it carried CyberLeek's emblem. Instead of dema…
Krybit is described as a fast-growing ransomware group that was reportedly hacked by a rival gang, retaliated, and is still extorting victims. The source is a short Fortra blog teaser by Graham Cluley, which points to a fuller article covering how the group operates, who it has targeted and how organisations can protect themselves. The te…
In mid-2026, user records allegedly taken from Golf Canada began circulating on Telegram, and Have I Been Pwned added them to its database on 22 Aug 2026. The dataset covers 569k unique email addresses with names, usernames, dates of birth, genders and approximate locations (city, province, postcode). The breach is dated May 2026. It is u…
In August 2026, Australian beauty retailer Oz Hair and Beauty was targeted in an extortion attack by the group xpl0itrs. The group subsequently published data allegedly stolen from the company. The leak contains roughly 2M unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, geographic locations (suburb and postcode) and purchase recor…
In August 2026, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW) identified unauthorised access to the Fanlore wiki it operates. The breach exposed roughly 145k unique email addresses along with usernames and passwords stored as MD5 or PBKDF2 hashes. OTW self-submitted the data to Have I Been Pwned, which added it on 19 Aug 2026 (144.5k af…
In July 2026, the cloud-based business communications platform RingCentral was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group subsequently published data it claimed to have obtained from the platform, covering 1.6M unique email addresses along with names, physical addresses and phone numbers. RingCentral stated in …
Two official Twitter/X accounts of Ireland's police service, Garda Síochána, were accessed by an unauthorised third party on Wednesday evening and used to post cryptocurrency-related messages. The posts claimed followers could claim free cryptocurrency through an airdrop, a lure that can trick victims into handing over wallet keys and hav…
In August 2026, clothing retailer Carhartt was targeted in a ShinyHunters "pay or leak" extortion campaign. The group published data allegedly taken from the company, including 12.9M unique email addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. The leaked corpus also held millions of synthetic records unrelated to real individuals,…
