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Deciphering Black Basta’s Infrastructure from the Chat Leak
By Oleg Lypko, with Estelle Ruellan and Tammy Harper (Flare Research) This article has originally appeared on Cybercrime Diaries On February 20, 2025, the cybersecurity community received an unexpected stroke of luck ...

PowerSchool Hack; Takedowns and Arrests and Leaks, Oh My!; and ITRC Breach Report Findings
There’s been quite a few hacks, takedowns-arrests-leaks, and insights from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) 2024 Breach Report. Dive into the most pressing recent stories on data leaks, cybercrime, and the ...

The Underground’s Favorite Messenger: Telegram’s Reign Continues
The data and visualizations presented on this webpage are based on information collected from January 2024 to January 2025. These graphs are static and do not reflect real-time updates or recent developments ...

MOVEit Repackaged and Recycled
The largest repackage and re-post of an old leak In November 2024, a hacker known as “Nam3L3ss” allegedly released previously undisclosed data from the MOVEit breach in May 2023. This leak consisted ...

Infostealer Malware: An Introduction
Infostealer malware represents one of the most underrated threats to corporate and consumer information security today. These sophisticated remote access Trojans (RATs) silently infect computers and systematically exfiltrate massive amounts of sensitive ...

Infostealer Malware: An Introduction
Infostealer malware represents one of the most underrated threats to corporate and consumer information security today. These sophisticated remote access Trojans (RATs) silently infect computers and systematically exfiltrate massive amounts of sensitive ...

Dark Web Forum Arrests, Columbus Ransomware Attack Updates, and American Background Info Data Leak
Keeping up with the world of cybercrime is important but can often feel overwhelming for security practitioners. Leaky Weekly is a podcast hosted by security researcher Nick Ascoli as he dives into ...

Cybercrime Current Events: AWS Takeover Campaign, Ransomware Attack on Columbus, and City of Columbus Sues Ransomware Researcher Whistleblower
There’s so much to keep up with in the world of cybercrime…especially for security practitioners. Leaky Weekly is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by security researcher Nick Ascoli as he dives into the ...

Cybercrime Current Events: Background Check Organization Breach, a Repossessed Ransomware Blog, Feuding Forums, and Double Arrest of “J.P. Morgan”
There’s so much to keep up with in the world of cybercrime…especially for security practitioners. Leaky Weekly is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by security researcher Nick Ascoli as he dives into the ...

Launching Leaky Weekly with Flare, Cybercrime Current Events Podcast
There’s so much to keep up with in the world of cybercrime…especially for security practitioners. Leaky Weekly is a bi-weekly podcast hosted by security researcher Nick Ascoli as he dives into the ...