Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

2026-06-15T13:23:30Z886fdb1b0476b9d4fa10e4ea6744dde7ed0c19548a34d41637c766737a75128d
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What happened

A set of high-impact security stories: a new ransomware gang called 'The Gentlemen' has rapidly grown via aggressive affiliate recruitment and may be tied to a real-world administrator; Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 vulnerabilities (about three dozen critical) with public exploit code available for at least three flaws; attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts via social‑engineering prompts; a CISA contractor publicly exposed AWS GovCloud keys and internal build/deploy secrets on GitHub, triggering a major data‑leak response,

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2026-06-15T13:23:30Z
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