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US food giant WK Kellogg Co is warning employees and vendors that company data was stolen during the 2024 Cleo data theft attacks. [...]

Sam's Club, an American warehouse supermarket chain owned by U.S. retail giant Walmart, is investigating claims of a Clop ransomware breach. [...]

The Clop ransomware gang started to extort victims of its Cleo data theft attacks and announced on its dark web portal that 66 companies have 48 hours to respond to the demands. [...]

The Clop ransomware gang started to extort victims of its Cleo data theft attacks and announced on its dark web portal that 66 companies have 48 hours to respond to the demands. [...]

The Clop ransomware gang has confirmed to BleepingComputer that they are behind the recent Cleo data-theft attacks, utilizing zero-day exploits to breach corporate networks and steal data. [...]

SysAid has patched a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to exfiltrate data and launch ransomware. The vulnerability was exploited by the threat group Lace Tempest, which distributes the Clop malware, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said on Nov. 8 on X. The Microsoft security experts wrote, in part, "Lace Tempest will likely use their access to exfiltrate data and deploy Clop ransomware."

Threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the service management software SysAid to gain access to corporate servers for data theft and to deploy Clop ransomware. [...]

The Clop ransomware gang has once again altered extortion tactics and is now using torrents to leak data stolen in MOVEit attacks. On June 14th, the ransomware gang began extorting its victims, slowly adding names to their Tor data leak site and eventually publicly releasing the files.

Accounting giant Deloitte, pizza and birthday party chain Chuck E. Cheese, government contractor Maximus, and the Hallmark Channel are among the latest victims that the Russian ransomware crew Clop claims to have compromised via the MOVEit vulnerability. The biz now joins PwC and Ernst and Young - all three big accounting firms - among the hundreds of organizations compromised by Clop via a security hole in vulnerable deployments of the file-transfer tool MOVEit.

The Clop ransomware gang is copying an ALPHV ransomware gang extortion tactic by creating Internet-accessible websites dedicated to specific victims, making it easier to leak stolen data and further pressuring victims into paying a ransom. This stolen data is used as leverage in double-extortion attacks, warning victims that the data will be leaked if a ransom is not paid.