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ShinyHunters says it hijacked Cl0p’s dark web leak site

On the night of Friday, September 18, the Tor leak site that the Cl0p ransomware gang used to name and pressure its victims was defaced. Another criminal group claimed responsibility, according to BleepingComputer.

When people visited the site, they saw Pokémon artwork, an ASCII Umbreon, above the message “THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERS” and the sign-off “rooting your systems since ’19”.

The post also included a link to ShinyHunters’ own leak platform. BleepingComputer confirmed that the defacement was active on Cl0p’s infrastructure and that the attackers uploaded a downloadable file.

The artwork acts as a kind of signature. The researcher VXDB matched the same Umbreon image to a HackForums defacement in August 2020, which ShinyHunters also claimed. This is a clue for attribution, not proof, and it marks the end of what this story can verify.

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BUSY Appoints Gyanendra Acharya as VP, People & Culture

BUSY, India’s leading accounting and GST compliance software provider for MSMEs, today announced the appointment of Gyanendra Acharya as Vice President, People and Culture. In this role, he will lead the company’s HR strategy, with a mandate to build people systems that can scale alongside the business as

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Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’ location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the location data processed through Web & App Activity and

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The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

The European Central Bank is preparing to put some of its own money into tokenized securities, moving from building the plumbing for digital asset markets to buying in them. Settlement will occur in central bank money, routed through Pontes, the system the Eurosystem has built for trades running on distributed

Hackers use fake coding tests to infect 30,000 devices and steal $10 million in crypto

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Bottom line: North Korean cybercriminals are using fake job offers to infect the computers of technology workers, steal cryptocurrency and collect information that can be used in later attacks. Authorities in Australia, Germany, Japan

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BUSY Appoints Gyanendra Acharya as VP, People & Culture

Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

The ECB will invest in tokenised securities, and settle the trades on its own new rail

Hackers use fake coding tests to infect 30,000 devices and steal $10 million in crypto