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...

lacks intelligence. The big hacking news this week is the formation of a possible hacking super group, as the notorious ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider collectives merge. Is this the real deal, and a threat to companies around the globe, or just...

on 3 September, which matches the time frame of the recent email. According to DataBreaches, a known threat actor called ShinyHunters – which takes its name from a Pokemon game – was behind the breach, admitting to the site that they accessed Pizza...

Infamous cyber extortion group ShinyHunters gives the professional services giant until the end of the month to pay up or face a data leak. “Yes, it was us.” That’s how the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed responsibility for a cyber incident first...

Prolific cyber extortion group ShinyHunters promises “several (annoying) digital problems” for the computer hardware giant. The ShinyHunters hacking collective claims to have collected another high-profile scalp, this time PC hardware and gaming brand...

CVE-2026-35273 last week – but hackers had already been exploiting it for almost two weeks. The cyber extortion group ShinyHunters is a past master at taking advantage of vulnerabilities in widely used platforms, and according to recent reporting from...

and adidas. So far, the threat actors have not released any data publicly, only resorting to email extortion. However, ShinyHunters has confirmed with BleepingComputer that it is privately contacting these companies for ransom payments and that it will...

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...

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...

Following the ShinyHunters Instructure hack, the morals of paying a ransom to cyber criminals have been a hot-button issue, but what do you really need to know before considering making that payment? A lot of organisations are pretty firm about whether...

today. “School principals are in the process of contacting families and teachers to advise them of the breach.” The ShinyHunters cyber extortion group is behind the incident and is claiming to have compromised millions of students and staff globally,...

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...

information”; Have I Been Pwned adds 13.5 million emails to database. Following being listed as a victim by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group, educational publishing giant McGraw Hill has confirmed the hackers were able to access its Salesforce...

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...

the incident is unknown, CyberCX executive director Katherine Mansted has raised the possibility that the infamous ShinyHunters hacking group is behind the attack. “It’s open cyber season on luxury retail brands globally,” she said. “The Louis Vuitton...

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 recent resolution: We have nothing to add on or comment regarding the recent situation at the LMS company,” the ShinyHunters group said in a 13 May press statement on its dark web leak site. “If you are an impacted institution, we are not seeking...

affected customers and that its operations had been unaffected. RingCentral’s disclosure comes a month after the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group listed the company as a victim on its darknet leak site. At the time, the hackers claimed to have gained...

have 1.3 terabytes of customer data stolen from the entertainment giant, as Home Affairs confirms it is on the case. The ShinyHunters hacking group has shared the details of an alleged hack of Ticketmaster and Live Nation and is selling the data for a...

where it may end up. A long-running feud between two prominent cyber extortion groups has exploded into action after the ShinyHunters group hacked and then defaced the dark web leak site belonging to the Cl0p extortion operation. The beef began on 19...