Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
2026-06-13T19:23:27Z•47553d90a9ba7230df42d58037f874f8e12f053986d701864c90989aa7c94a52
AI social engineeringAWS GovCloudCISACanvasDDoSGitHub secretsInstagram account takeoverKimwolfMetaMicrosoft Patch TuesdayRussia-linked activityThe Gentlemenbotnetdata extortiondata leakhosting abuselaw enforcementpublic exploitsransomwarevulnerabilities
What happened
A set of high‑impact cybersecurity stories from KrebsOnSecurity: investigative attribution of the ransomware group “The Gentlemen”; Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixing ~200 flaws (dozens critical and at least three with public exploit code); abuse of Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts; an egregious CISA contractor leak exposing AWS GovCloud keys and internal secrets; large‑scale incidents including the Canvas data‑extortion affecting ~275M users, the arrest of an alleged Kimwolf IoT botnet operator, and Dutch seizures/arrests tied to hosting used by Russian cyber‑/
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- 2026-06-13T19:23:27Z
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