Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’
2026-06-16T13:23:27Z•7e7ad335776de6e1f9c6ba7b0dfcbc7d3ade7dce3141db2c6567b546bde19080
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity stories (May–June 2026) describe a concentrated period of high-impact cyber activity: a prolific new ransomware gang called “The Gentlemen” has rapidly grown via aggressive affiliate recruitment and investigators are narrowing in on a likely administrator identity; Microsoft’s June Patch Tuesday fixed a record ~200 vulnerabilities (including ~36 rated critical) with public exploit code available for multiple flaws; attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to reset and seize high-profile Instagram accounts; a CISA contractor publicly exposed privileged AWS GovCloud keys and敏
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