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Ransomware

Florida Ransomware 'Expert' Charged With Secretly Paying the Hackers He Promised to Beat

Zohar Pinhasi, owner of MonsterCloud, is accused of billing victims millions while quietly funding the criminals who locked their files.

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Ransomware

INC Ransom Claims Attack on Richmond School for Students with Dyslexia

A criminal ransomware group has listed The New Community School on its dark-web pressure site. The school has not confirmed any incident, and the claim cannot be independently verified.

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Ransomware

INC Ransom Claims Attack on US Firm Magnals.com

The ransomware group has listed the American company on its dark-web pressure site. The claim is unverified, and Magnals.com has not publicly confirmed any incident.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Group Insomnia Claims Attack on Medical Records Firm Praxis EMR

A criminal gang that has claimed 53 victims since February has listed an American electronic health records company on its dark-web shaming site. The company has not confirmed anything.

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Ransomware

Teenager accused of running KillSec ransomware gang arrested as police seize servers

Europol says three suspects were detained and eight searches carried out across four countries, taking down the leak site of a group tied to around 1,000 attacks.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Group Wallstreet Claims Attack on St. Francis Healthcare Systems of Hawaii

A criminal ransomware group has listed a century-old Catholic nonprofit hospital network on its dark-web claims site. The organisation has not confirmed any incident, and the claim remains unverified.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Group The Gentlemen Claims Attack on Gerrity Stone

A Massachusetts stone fabrication company has been listed on a dark-web extortion site. The claim is unverified, but the group behind it has been active since at least June.

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Ransomware

Qilin Ransomware Group Claims Attack on US Lender Genesis Credit Management

The criminal group has listed the Texas-based financial services firm on its dark-web pressure site. No breach has been confirmed, and the claim has not been independently verified.

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Ransomware

Warlock keeps hitting SharePoint servers across Latin America and Iberia, Symantec says

The ransomware group is still breaking into Microsoft SharePoint servers in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries, hitting hospitals, government offices and schools.

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Ransomware

Kairos Ransomware Group Claims Attack on Vermont School District, Alleges Student Medical Records Stolen

The Kairos ransomware group has listed Slate Valley Unified Union School District on its dark-web claims page, alleging it seized hundreds of gigabytes of data including personal and medical records. The district has not confirmed any incident.

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Ransomware

Ransomware Group Krybit Claims Attack on Disk Precision Group

The group listed the US-based manufacturer on its dark-web site on 1 October 2026. Disk Precision has not publicly confirmed any incident, and the claim has not been independently verified.

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A 16-Year-Old Is Suspected of Running KillSec, One of Ransomware's Busiest Criminal Groups

European police arrested three people and seized servers after a year-long investigation into roughly 1,000 cyberattacks. The alleged ringleader is a Romanian teenager.

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AI Security

Microsoft Pins Azure Wipeout on JadePuffer, the First Agentic Ransomware Crew

Storm-3168's AI-driven agents destroyed more than 100 Azure storage accounts in seven minutes, using a service principal whose credentials had been sitting in a public GitHub issue.

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Ransomware

Vexy Ransomware Claims Attack on Summit Electric Supply

A criminal group called Vexy has listed the US electrical distributor on its dark-web pressure site. The company has not confirmed any incident, and the claim is unverified.

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Ransomware

Ransomware group Pear claims attack on Software Answers, a Banyan Software Company

A criminal gang has listed the corporate-housing software firm on its dark-web pressure site. The company has not confirmed anything, and the claim is unverified.

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