Luke James reports: Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system. The files appear to…
FBI Flash Alert: Cyber Criminal Groups UNC6040 and UNC6395 Compromising Salesforce Instances for Data Theft and Extortion
FLASH Alert-20250912-001 TLP:Clear Summary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this FLASH to disseminate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) associated with recent malicious cyber activities by cyber criminal groups UNC6040 and UNC6395, responsible for a rising number of data theft and extortion intrusions. Both groups have recently been observed targeting organizations’ Salesforce platforms via…
“Pompompurin’s” re-sentencing is scheduled for Tuesday. What will the judge do this time?
In March 2023, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin,” was arrested at his home in New York. As a member of the former RaidForums, and as the owner and active participant in BreachForums, he was charged with one count each of: 18 U.S.C. § 1029(b)(2) and 3559(g)(1) Conspiracy to Commit Access Device Fraud; 18 U.S.C. §…
U.S. Senator accuses Microsoft of “gross cybersecurity negligence”
Bill Toulas reports: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. The Senator started the formal asking by saying that Microsoft should be held “responsible for its…
Going Dark: ShinyHunters/ScatteredSpider/LAPSUS$ Say Goodbye (2)
On September 8, the “scattered LAPSUS$ hunters 4.0” Telegram channel posted: FBI and French LE, great job for the third time arresting the wrong person in France once again. DOJ please stop wasting your budget by flying your agents to France every time to make the WRONG arrest, as it’s almost the end of the…
Exclusive: High-end fashion retailers Gucci, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Alexander McQueen hit by Salesforce attacks
Those readers who aren’t A-listers (including yours truly) may never have heard of Kering, but you may have heard of their high-end fashion brands: Gucci. Yves Saint Laurent. Bottega Veneta. Balenciaga. Alexander McQueen. Brioni. It is some of those fashion brands that are the subject of this post as they fell prey to attacks by…