In Weekly Update 516, Troy Hunt comments on the Brinks Home incident, in which the company is the target of criminal extortion. He criticizes the company's FAQ as so heavily lawyered that it fails to answer basic incident response questions. Hunt describes a common breach pattern: attackers obtain data by vishing a target and abusing OAut…
Troy Hunt of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) analysed the leak that ShinyHunters attributed to Carhartt. The leak was claimed to hold more than 50 GB of customer and employee records. The initial extraction showed 24,876,077 unique email addresses. Closer review showed that a large share came from the TPC-DS benchmark dataset (tpcdssf1000) store…
In his weekly update, Troy Hunt notes that the ShinyHunters group appears to be on an escalating trajectory, reportedly targeting both the Cl0p ransomware group and the FBI. Hunt describes this as feeling like a crescendo in the group's activities and says that provoking US federal law enforcement is unlikely to help the group's longevity…
Troy Hunt's weekly update reports two arrests linked to the ShinyHunters cybercrime group: an individual named Pepijn in the Netherlands and another named Saif in Jordan. Hunt calls the arrests an inevitable and likely outcome. He expects more members to follow, and anticipates substantial custodial sentences given the seriousness of the …