and has been engaging in a widespread extortion campaign targeting users of the Oracle E-Business Suite platform, ShinyHunters and its various linked hacking collectives are also involved in the hacking campaign. “In early October 2025 ‘SCATTERED...

and Salesloft Drift pending further investigation,” Google said. There is evidence that the Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters collectives, which appear to have formed some kind of loose hacking alliance, may be behind the hacking campaign. According to...

French police make arrests throughout France as US authorities charge British national Kai West, aka IntelBroker. Law enforcement agencies from the United States and France may have put the final nails into the coffin of the infamous hacking community...

analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), told BleepingComputer. While not definitive, this could suggest that ShinyHunters are working with the Scattered Spider hacking collective in launching high-profile cyber attacks. Allianz Life operates...

Global law enforcement agencies led by the FBI have taken control of the infamous BreachForums overnight. The site seizure occurred overnight, with the BreachForums site and Telegram both displaying messages from the FBI. “This website has been taken...

first 200,000 users will receive the latest upgraded version of the member rank,” USDoD said. “There are others, such as ShinyHunters [the other BreachForums admin alongside Baphomet] and his team, who plan to create their own forum. However, I urge you...

in ransom to the threat actors behind the attack. According to a report by WIRED, AT&T negotiated with a member of the ShinyHunters threat group through an intermediary called Reddington. Originally, ShinyHunters was asking for a $1 million ransom, but...

that at least one person has been apprehended,” said AT&T. It is unclear who was arrested and whether they were from ShinyHunters – the threat group that was paid the ransom – or Reddington, who was contacted by the hacker believed to be John Erin...

appears to be a relatively new victim, reporting from DataBreaches.net noted that Kering was revealed as a victim of a ShinyHunters attack some time in 2024. “When did Balenciaga, Brioni, Alexander McQueen or Kering first discover this breach, and how...

10 October Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters shared a PGP-signed message from an individual claiming to be or to represent ShinyHunters soon after the takedown, stating that BreachForums was now officially dead. “BreachForums was seized by the FBI and...

because their members operate within and across them,” Beek said. “We believe, however, that the names Lapsus$ and ShinyHunters are being abused as a ‘marketing brand’ rather than representing the original groups in action. This is because Lapsus$ has...

a threat actor. Earlier this year, GTA V developer Rockstar Games also confirmed a cyber attack, after infamous hackers ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach of cloud data platform Snowflake. The hackers listed Rockstar Games as a victim in...

third-party organisation in question was Salesforce, linking the attack to the wave of cyber attacks performed by the ShinyHunters threat group, potentially even the new Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters hacking supergroup. BleepingComputer said that...

A 26-year-old admits to stealing the data of millions of individuals during a widely reported months-long hacking spree. A 26-year-old Canadian man arrested in October 2024 pleaded guilty last week to a string of data breaches targeting compromised...

information, phone numbers, and physical addresses – was posted as punishment for the arrests of hackers with links to ShinyHunters and IntelBroker. 5. Bouygues Telecom France’s third-largest telco disclosed it had fallen victim to a cyber attack in...

Cloud storage company Snowflake says the breach is not its fault, as the ACSC released an alert warning of “increased cyber threat activity regarding Snowflake customers”. Last week’s Ticketmaster data breach has gotten even more complex over the...

the data stolen in the Ticketmaster and Ticketek hacks earlier this month. On 20 June, Sp1d3r – who may be linked to the ShinyHunters hacking group – made two posts just hours apart, complaining in the first one that “Ticketmaster will not respond to...

to use legitimate data gathered from these servers to carry out a wide campaign of fraud.” Ticketmaster data breach The ShinyHunters hacking collective made headlines with a data breach that impacted 15 million innocent fans of live music and other...

to the hackers being arrested – one in France that appears to have put the final nail into BreachForums’ coffin as both ShinyHunters and IntelBroker are now behind bars, and another here in Australia, as the infamous Western Sydney University hacker was...

In this episode of the Cyber Uncut podcast, David Hollingworth and Daniel Croft discuss the Commonwealth Bank and Atlassian laying off staff to make way for AI, new developments in the Qantas hack, and Ukrainian hackers targeting Aeroflot. Hollingworth...