If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more
Governments have long warned not to pay a hacker’s ransom demands, arguing that doing so only lets criminals profit from...
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Silent Ransom Group: what you need to know
Most extortion gangs hide behind a keyboard. Silent Ransom Group will phone your staff pretending to be IT support -...
Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to...
Hackers exploit unsecured MongoDB instances to wipe data and demand ransom
Hackers exploit unsecured MongoDB instances to wipe data and demand ransom Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2026 Over 1,400 exposed MongoDB...
