In a post on the dark web site, the hackers claimed they stole personal data from more than 6,700 people, in addition to more than 119,000 internal files from the company, totaling 225 GB in size.

The meeting gave start to the series of in-country activities for the region that explore deeper into the aspects of cooperation between the cybercrime investigations and financial investigations/intelligence, with particular focus on certain types of ICT-facilitated fraud, virtual currencies and Darknet.

Bank Negara Malaysia's (BNM) decision to suspend access to the CCRIS service applies to all credit reporting agencies and states that access will be restored once secure access to credit reporting agencies is assured.

Nearly 250,000 criminal offenses are said to have occurred while running dark web services from 400 servers in an old bunker in Traben-Trabach, with transactions worth millions of dollars involving drugs, counterfeit money or cyber attacks.

Cisco's Talos security research team says RAT malware purchased on the dark web, with simple modifications, is behind cyber attacks against the Indian government.

Five members of a nationwide criminal gang have been arrested in Moscow, Rostov, Astrakhan and Krasnodar regions, TASS news agency reports.

Chainalysis, the largest blockchain tracking company, owns and operates walletexplorer.com, a service that allows anyone to view the history of public cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and Chainalysis uses WalletExplorer to collect IP information about cryptocurrency users who visit the site.

Ransomware gangs such as BlackMatter typically steal data from a company's network before encrypting it and then threatening to release the files online if the ransom used to decrypt them is not paid.

The attackers' goal is not to compromise systems or demand ransoms, but to collect valuable information that they can later use or sell to others. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said the organisation was "a frequent target of cyber attacks".

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