10 and the number of leak posts made in the first three months of 2025: Clop 413 RansomHub 232 Babuk 168 Babuk-Bjorka 163 Akira 135 Lynx 115 Qilin 111 FunkSec 96 Cactus 94 Play 84 The big trends The Black Basta ransomware group appears to have...

lists Sydney-based Consonic on leak site following alleged theft of 28 gigabytes of ‘essential corporate information’. The Akira ransomware gang claimed this week to have exfiltrated 28 gigabytes of data from Australian engineering services company...

Passports and driver’s licences part of a 148-gigabyte data breach impacting luxury Sydney hotel. The Akira ransomware gang has listed the Chinese-owned The Fullerton Hotels and Resorts as a victim on its darknet leak site and is claiming to have...

customer details, weeks after TOGA Far East (TFE) Hotels group confirmed it was the victim of a damaging cyber attack. The Akira ransomware gang has listed Australian real estate and property developer TOGA on its darknet leak site and is claiming to...

Security researchers have observed the Akira ransomware gang use a unique attack vector to bypass EDR protection. The Akira ransomware gang is a pretty prolific operation and remarkably fond of old school computing vibes. Its darknet leak site is laid...

Threat actors have claimed a ransomware attack on Australian engineering firm Thornton Engineering. The Akira ransomware gang listed Thornton Engineering on its dark web leak site on 24 February, claiming to have exfiltrated personal and business data....

62 per cent year on year during December 2024, which was easily the busiest month of the year for ransomware operators. The Akira group was the most active in the last six months of 2024, followed by Fog – both of whom have recently claimed Australian...

The Akira ransomware gang has claimed a cyber attack on a now-defunct Australian media company. Regency Media was listed on Akira’s dark web leak site, with the threat actor claiming to have stolen personal data belonging to customers and employees, as...

was easily the most prevalent threat faced by organisations around the world, with groups such RansomHub, PLAY, and Akira staking a claim as operators to watch out for. And yet, despite the activity of law enforcement agencies, and being quiet most of...

Ransomware gang Akira claims breach of Queensland-based transport company, saying it has employee IDs and financial data. The Akira ransomware gang has claimed Queensland-headquartered transport company Followmont Transport as a victim on its darknet...

within the network.” Microsoft’s researchers have seen ransomware deployments from several well-known gangs, including Akira and Black Basta. The hackers have been able to run a pair of commands to create a group called “ESX Admins” on a target domain...

The Akira ransomware gang has said it hacked the Australian arm of the consumer tech firm, but Panasonic says no data has been stolen. The Akira ransomware gang listed camera and consumer tech giant Panasonic Australia on its darknet leak site...

Hackers allege they have client documents and court details belonging to Brett Slater Solicitors. The Akira ransomware gang has claimed it has successfully hacked a Sydney law firm that specialises in immigration matters and is threatening to publish a...

Nissan Oceania breach saw various government ID documents compromised, including passports and Medicare card details. The Akira ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the hack. Alongside Nissan Oceania’s outsourced call centre operations, the...

Corvus said. “Indeed, our data shows recent upticks in activity from other ransomware groups, such as Black Basta, Akira, Hunters International and BianLian. This trend supports the notion that affiliates are likely shifting their operations to...

such as dates of birth.” While Nissan has not acknowledged the threat actor behind the breach, the attack was claimed by the Akira ransomware gang, which claimed to have stolen 100 gigabytes of data from the company. “We’ve obtained 100GB of data of...

Centre (EC3), and the National Cyber Security Centre in the Netherlands (NCSC-NL), have released a joint advisory on the Akira ransomware gang. Akira, which first appeared in March 2023 targeting Windows systems before establishing malware for Linux...

such as dates of birth.” While Nissan has not acknowledged the threat actor behind the breach, the attack was claimed by the Akira ransomware gang, which claimed to have stolen 100 gigabytes of data from the company. “We’ve obtained 100GB of data of...

The Akira ransomware gang is enjoying an influx of “pen-testers”, according to a security researcher’s report. Infamous ransomware-as-a-service operation LockBit may still be in operation, but it appears last month’s takedown of the gang by an...

its capabilities. New reports suggest that many of LockBit’s big affiliates are looking for other ransomware gangs, with the Akira threat group being a key receiver of these cyber criminal refugees.