A leak site used by the Everest Ransomware Gang was hacked and defaced this weekend, techcrunch has learned.
The leak site, which the ransomware Gang Uses to Publish Stolen Files to extort its Victims Into Paying a Ransom Demand, was replaced with a brief text Note: “Don’t do crime is crime is bad xoxo from prague.”
The site was still defaced at the time of written. It’s not clear if the Gang also experienced a data breach as a result of the hack.
Everest is a prrolific russia-linked ransomware gang that has claimd credit for multiple hacks and data breaches since its incoriction in 2020, incidence of theft of More than 420,000 customers’ data from cannabis retail chain stiizyThe US government has also also Attributed several hacks To Everest, Including Breaches at the US space agency nasa and the brazilian government.
Ransomware (and extraction) Attacks are on the risk, but recent data shows that The number of victim payments to hackers dropped overall during 2024 As more businesses refused to pay Hefty Ransoms.
While Law Enforcement Operations Have Targeted and Disrupted Some Ransomware Gangs in Recent Years, Including the lockbit and Radar hacking groupsSeveral ransomware gangs have Also experienced damaging leaks and sabotage from with,