ShinyHunters and ReliaQuest trade blows over claimed breach


ShinyHunters has claimed another cybersecurity scalp, but ReliaQuest says the crew’s social engineering attack only got as far as one employee identity before its defenses slammed the door.

The ransomware baddies listed US-based infosec biz ReliaQuest on its leak site on August 23, claiming the corporation as its latest victim.

The listing, seen by The Register, links to screenshots the gang claims show access to ReliaQuest’s Okta dashboard. It did not publish any stolen customer data, however, and SOCRadar said it had found no validated data samples, ransom demand, or evidence of customer impact.

Read more…
Source:  The Register News


Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox


Related:

  • Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

    June 25, 2026

    Prediction market giant Polymarket confirmed that hackers stole funds from an unspecified number of users after a third-party breach. In an X post on Thursday, Polymarket said that a compromise at a third-party vendor allowed hackers to inject malicious code into its website “for some users.” The company said it has “contained” the incident and is ...

  • Self-destructing Mistic backdoor linked to access broker selling corporate footholds to ransomware gangs

    June 25, 2026

    A new self-destructing backdoor called Mistic used in intrusions since April appears to be linked to a criminal gang that compromises corporate networks and then sells that access to ransomware groups, according to security researchers. This backdoor, also tracked as MLTBackdoor, was first documented by Zscaler earlier this month, with the security shop suggesting the novel malware is ...

  • Almost half of ransomware victims have data stolen before they can even detect an intrusion

    June 25, 2026

    Criminals are getting better at hiding within their victims’ infrastructure, lurking and stealing files without triggering any alarms whatsoever. Earlier today, network detection and response experts ExtraHop released the “Global Threat Landscape Report”, based on a survey of more than 1,800 IT and security leaders worldwide. In it, it is said that roughly half (49%) of ...

  • Global cyber strike disrupts SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC malware networks

    June 24, 2026

    Europol together with partners from across the globe today announces a landmark blow to cybercriminal networks as part of Operation Endgame, a sweeping international operation targeting the criminal infrastructure behind ransomware and malware like SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC. In coordinated actions over the past two weeks, key components of these malicious toolkits were dismantled as ...

  • US healthcare AI platform Xsolis confirms data breach that affects 1.4 million individuals

    June 23, 2026

    Healthcare technology company Xsolis disclosed a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive data on almost 1.4 million customers. Xsolis is a company that uses AI to help healthcare organizations make faster and more consistent decisions about patient care and utilization management. Earlier this week, it published a data breach notification on its website, saying that it ...

  • A VBScript campaign distributed through WhatsApp deploying RMM software

    June 22, 2026

    In June 2026, Kaspersky observed a malware campaign distributing malicious VBScript files through direct messages in WhatsApp. The campaign affected users across multiple countries and territories, including Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, UK, Spain, Taiwan, Australia, Russia and Vietnam, with the highest number of victims observed in Malaysia. At the time of writing this article, ...