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Customers of GMO Internet were warned to disconnect PCs and unplug network cables before a noon deadline on Oct. 27. Hackers threatened to activate ransomware on devices logged into the cloud service during a recent security breach. GMO refused to pay a $50 million ransom demanded by the attackers. The incident involved a breach of GMO's virtual private server cloud service which may have exposed 26,739 servers.
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- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“Attackers breached the servers, stole customer credentials, and executed balance-destroying trades across over 70 brokerages.”x.com
- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“Regarding this extortion, we have submitted all evidence, including communication records, to the police authorities”x.com
- SOURCE@andrewcurran_“threatened to trigger ransomware installed on the PCs of everyone who was logged into the cloud during the hack”x.com
- SUPPORT@choblin29“investigation by our group's GMO Cybersecurity by Ierae has confirmed that... 'ARTEX,' an autonomous AI penetration-testing tool originally meant for defense, was being abused”x.com
- SUPPORT@choblin29“GMO shares fell 11% in early Monday trading as the company faced compensation costs from the breach.”x.com
- SUPPORT@marionawfal“PM Sanae Takaichi is holding an emergency meeting with her ministers tonight, after a bunch of cyberattacks left Japanese companies leaking huge amounts of data.”x.com
- SUPPORT@8teapi“Govts are powerful and real money lives in a database where you can reverse what happened.”x.com
- SOURCEhuggingnewshuggingnews.com