He’s just a frail-looking teenager, but he sent threatening emails to get his victims to pay his extortion demands. Today, 19 year-old Assumption College student Matthew Lane waived indictment and pleaded guilty in a Worcester courtroom to hacking an unnamed telecom company and an unnamed edtech vendor, widely known to be PowerSchool. As per the…
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Rewards for Justice offers $10M reward for info on RedLine developer or RedLine’s use by foreign governments
The government’s Rewards for Justice program has announced a $10 million reward for information on Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov (Максим Александрович Рудомётов), born in 1999 in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Rudometov allegedly developed and has sold the infostealer malware known as RedLine. “Rudometov has regularly accessed and managed the technical infrastructure of RedLine , is…
New evidence links long-running hacking group to Indian government
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Researchers say they have uncovered new evidence linking a long-running threat actor known as Bitter to the Indian government…. In a two-part report released this week, researchers from U.S.-based Proofpoint and Switzerland-based Threatray said their new findings are based on a series of campaigns conducted between October 2024 and April 2025. During this period, Bitter —…
Zaporizhzhia Cyber Police Exposes Hacker Who Caused Millions in Losses to Victims by Mining Cryptocurrency
The following is a machine translation from a report in Ukrainian by the country’s national police cyber department: A 35-year-old man hacked more than 5,000 customer accounts of a world-famous hosting company to generate cryptocurrency on the organization’s servers. The defendant faces up to 15 years in prison. Police officers determined that a 35-year-old native…
Germany fines Vodafone $51 million for privacy, security breaches
Sergiu Gatlan reports: The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company’s German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. “Due to malicious employees in partner agencies who broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone, there had been fraud cases due to fictitious contracts or contract changes at…
Google: Hackers target Salesforce accounts in data extortion attacks
Bill Toulas reports: Google has observed hackers claiming to be the ShinyHunters extortion group conducting social engineering attacks against multi-national companies to steal data from organizations’ Salesforce platforms. According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which tracks the threat cluster as ‘UNC6040,’ the attacks target English-speaking employees with voice phishing attacks to trick them into…