ShinyHunters Leaks Charter Communications Data, Potentially Impacting 5 Million Customers
2026-05-31T02:51:44Z•b67b6cf7d219204ae51d8100f01ea323b809ae9fad85789a12868f7be61db0d8
APT (GREYVIBE)CVE-2026-35616FortinetRATactive-exploitationactivistsandroidasocksbotnet-takedowncode-signing-abusedata-breachdata-leakextortionjournalistsmalware-as-a-servicemalware-signingmobile-malwarephishingproxy-serviceremote-access-trojansocial-engineeringsupply-chainvulnerability-disclosurewindows-zero-dayszero-day
What happened
Multiple high-impact incidents reported: ShinyHunters published alleged Charter Communications customer data after a failed extortion attempt (potentially ~5M records); Carnival disclosed a breach affecting ~5.995M people following social-engineering on employee accounts. A critical FortiClient EMS RCE (CVE-2026-35616, CVSS 9.1) is actively exploited to deploy malware. Other notable items: a 17M-device botnet tied to proxy service Asocks was dismantled in the Netherlands; a phishing campaign targets Signal users to steal backup recovery keys; BTMOB RAT is being sold as an easy Android full‑dev
Why it matters
A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.
Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- securityaffairs
- Record identifier
- b67b6cf7d219204ae51d8100f01ea323b809ae9fad85789a12868f7be61db0d8
- Enrichment time
- 2026-05-31T02:51:44Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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