During a disruption action on January 29, 2025, HeartSender servers and domains were seized by various police services. HeartSender is the name of a group of phishing software makers. The Cybercrime Team of the East Brabant police unit started an investigation at the end of 2022, after phishing software was found on the computer of…
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Exclusive: Apex Custom Software hacked, threat actors threaten to leak the software (1)
On January 20, the hackers known as 0mid16B tweeted, “At 7:40AM 20th Jan (US time), a US healthcare software provider has been hacked. All data in server has been deleted. 48 hours left before we publish all data.” The attached screenshot showed a listing of medications, but without any patient information attached. Two days later,…
No need to hack when it’s leaking: ZAR clinics edition
Heise.de reports: A massive data leak potentially affects hundreds of thousands of patients at ZAR rehab clinics across Germany. Among other things, highly sensitive medical reports were accessible. The affected rehab centers are under the umbrella of Nanz medico, which claims to be the largest provider of outpatient rehab services in Germany. This includes a…
New York Blood Center Enterprises Ransomware Attack Update
A personal message to whatever threat actor or ransomware group hit the New York Blood Center: You are endangering lives, and every day that goes by will put more lives at risk. Do the morally right thing and give them a decryptor now. — Dissent. A statement from the New York Blood Center: January 29:…
FBI seizes Cracked.io, Nulled.to hacking forums in Operation Talent (1)
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Update January 29, 14:15 EST: Seizure banners were added to the cracked[.] io, nulled [.] to, starkrdp [.] io, mysellix [.] io, and sellix [.] io, confirming that the domains had been seized in a joint law enforcement action dubbed “Operation Talent” that included authorities from the United States, Italy, Spain, Europe,…
With his criminal trial looming, the hacker known as “DR32” pleaded guilty in federal court
With only two weeks until his trial was scheduled to start, Australian national David Kee Crees informed a federal court in Colorado that he wanted to change his plea to guilty. On January 15, he pleaded guilty to 14 out of 22 counts. Background Crees, a 26 year-old Australian, was known online as Abdilo, DR32,…