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Sergiu Gatlan

@serghei
15 posts
2025-08-11
Eighty cheat websites generate between $12.8 million and $73.2 million annually, according to academics at the University of Birmingham.  —  Up to 174,000 people may be buying cheats every month across North America and Europe.  —  www.wired.com/story/inside...  Research: github.com/SamCollins13...
2025-08-11 View on X
Wired

UK researchers estimate 80 game cheat-selling websites generate $12.8M to $73.2M annually from 30K to 174K monthly buyers across North America and Europe alone

Gaming cheats are the bane of the video game industry—and a hot commodity.  A recent study found that cheat creators are making …

2025-07-21
Dell confirms that the World Leaks extortion gang breached one of its product demonstration platforms and is now trying to extort the company into paying a ransom.  —  www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/ securit...
2025-07-21 View on X
BleepingComputer

Dell confirms extortion group World Leaks breached its Solution Centers platform, used for demos, earlier in July, stealing mostly synthetic or public data

A newly rebranded extortion gang known as “World Leaks” breached one of Dell's product demonstration platforms earlier this month …

2024-12-21
Daniel Christian Hulea, a Romanian man charged for his involvement in NetWalker ransomware attacks, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to computer fraud conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in June.  —  www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/ securit...
2024-12-21 View on X
BleepingComputer

US DOJ says a Romanian involved in Netwalker ransomware attacks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to computer fraud and wire fraud

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/ securit... LinkedIn: James Silver : Proud to be part of this team bringing ransomware actors to justice.  —  https://lnkd.in/... Forums: r/cybersecur...

2023-01-27
FBI hacked the ransomware gang last July and distributed over 1,300 additional decryption keys to Hive victims, saving victims ~$130 million in ransom payments. Also helped victims kick Hive affiliates out of their networks before the ransomware payloads were deployed. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-27 View on X
TechCrunch

The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022

using lawful means, we hacked the hackers.” Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : Since infiltrating the network the FBI in July it was able to help 1,300 victims with decryption keys, pre...

2023-01-07
Rackspace says that attackers accessed email data belonging to 27 customers in last month's ransomware incident. The affected Hosted Exchange environment will be discontinued, with plans to migrate all customers to Microsoft 365 already in place. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ...
2023-01-07 View on X
TechCrunch

Rackspace plans to discontinue its Exchange service after confirming hackers accessed 27 customers' personal data during the December 2022 ransomware attack

Carly Page / TechCrunch :

2022-11-02
“In 2021, FinCEN received 1,489 ransomware-related filings worth nearly $1.2 billion, a 188 percent increase compared to the total of $416 million for 2020.” Press release: https://www.fincen.gov/... FinCEN's analysis: https://www.fincen.gov/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-02 View on X
CNBC

FinCEN: US financial firms processed ~$1.2B in likely ransomware payments in 2021, up almost 3x YoY; ~75% of H2 2021 ransomware incidents were linked to Russia

- U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.

2022-09-28
Meta takes down a large Russian disinformation network of 60 websites “impersonating legitimate websites of news organizations in Europe, including Spiegel, The Guardian and Bild.” https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-28 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia

complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...

2022-09-27
Meta takes down a large Russian disinformation network of 60 websites “impersonating legitimate websites of news organizations in Europe, including Spiegel, The Guardian and Bild.” https://about.fb.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-27 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia

Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

2022-04-14
People who “invested” in NFTs rn: https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-14 View on X
CoinDesk

The auction for an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first-ever tweet, which sold for $2.9M last year, ended with a maximum bid of 2 ETH, worth around $6.2K

Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. Source: OpenSea .

2021-11-09
Biden: “When I met with President Putin in June, I made clear that the United States would take action to hold cybercriminals accountable. That's what we have done today.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-09 View on X
CNN

US charges a Ukrainian suspect, arrested in Poland last month, and a Russian citizen over REvil attacks, and says it seized $6M in ransom payments

(CNN)Law enforcement officials have seized an estimated $6 million in ransom payments, and the US Justice Department is expected to announce Monday …

2021-10-01
😬In combination with a Visa card, “this feature can be leveraged to bypass the Apple Pay lock screen, and illicitly pay from a locked iPhone, using a Visa card, to any EMV reader, for any amount, without user authorisation.” https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-01 View on X
BBC

Researchers: a flaw in Apple Pay lets attackers make a Visa payment with a locked iPhone in Express Transit mode; Apple calls it “a concern with a Visa system”

here's what to do Will Feuer / New York Post : Researchers flag flaw that allows hackers to drain cash from iPhones Tweets: @serghei : 😬In combination with a Visa card, “this featu...

2021-08-13
Looks like Apple employees have joined the “screeching voices of the minority”😬 https://twitter.com/...
2021-08-13 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Apple employees have sent 800+ Slack messages on an internal channel debating the company's plans to scan US iPhones, iPads, and computers for CSAM

A backlash over Apple's move to scan U.S. customer phones and computers for child sex abuse images has grown to include employees speaking …

2021-07-20
1TB of Saudi Aramco files for sale on hacker forum after data breach. Saudi Aramco confirmed that the data theft incident has no impact on their operation and “the company continues to maintain a robust cybersecurity posture.” https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

1TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco is for sale on the dark web, with some files dating back to 1993; the company blames the leak on 3rd-party contractors

2021-07-05
“Although the scale of this incident may make it so that we are unable to respond to each victim individually, all information we receive will be useful in countering this threat.” 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-05 View on X
The Record

In a post on the REvil dark web blog, the gang takes credit for the Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in bitcoin for the decryptor

The REvil ransomware gang is asking for a $70 million ransom payment to publish a universal decryptor that can unlock …

“Although the scale of this incident may make it so that we are unable to respond to each victim individually, all information we receive will be useful in countering this threat.” 👀 https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-05 View on X
Reuters

President Biden says he has directed US intelligence agencies to investigate the Kaseya ransomware attack and adds “we're not certain” who is behind the attack

Trevor Hunnicutt / Reuters :