Hacker drama! ShinyHunters hacks, extorts Cl0P cyber extortion group – Cyber Daily

Hacker drama! ShinyHunters hacks, extorts Cl0P cyber extortion group  Cyber Daily

A feud is has broken into open cyber warfare on the darkweb between two heavyweights in the cyber extortion ecosystem – here’s how it started, and where it may end up… A long-running feud between two prominent cyber extortion groups has exploded into action after the ShinyHunters group hacked and then defaced the darkweb leak site belonging to the Cl0p extortion operation. The beef began on September 19, when ShinyHunters uploaded a small text file to Cl0p’s leak site via a file upload vulnerability in the site’s CMS, according to reporting by Bleeping Computer, who were able to access Cl0p’s site before hostilities escalated. "THIS SITE HAS BEEN PWN3D BY SHINYHUNTERES #Skids10p – Maybe don't try to threaten us next time," the file said.

Within hours, however, Cl0p’s site had been defaced, and as of writing the .onion address remains offline. A day after the site defacement, ShinyHunters published a message to Cl0p on its own leak site. "Email us from your official email at shinygroup@[xxx].com and let's see how rich you really are,” the hackers said. “2.333 per cent of my net worth is a 8 figure amount, I hope you can pay that much because that is the demand, negotiable. Get your bosses in front of the whiteboard in the war room. Clock is ticking moron. Kindly excuse