Who Runs the Ransomware Group ‘The Gentlemen?’

2026-06-11T07:23:28Zc98a36526fdcce7bf47574f384ef3a189fac582feb950256ff8377ccdaf0914f
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What happened

A collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports detailing multiple high-impact cyber incidents: investigation into the administrator of the ransomware group “The Gentlemen” and its aggressive affiliate model; a record June 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixing nearly 200 vulnerabilities (dozens critical) with public exploit code for at least three flaws; abuse of Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts; a major CISA contractor data leak exposing AWS GovCloud keys and internal secrets and prompting congressional inquiries; Dutch seizures of ~800 servers and arrests for hosting Russian-al

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2026-06-11T07:23:28Z
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