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The Week in Ransomware - June 23rd 2023 - The Reddit Files
2023-06-23 22:49

It was a relatively quiet week regarding ransomware news, with the BlackCat ransomware gang extorting Reddit and the ongoing MOVEit Transfer data breaches being the main focus. In an update on the BlackCat data leak site, the threat actors claim they stole 80 GB of compressed data during the attack and now plan on leaking the data after they say Reddit ignored a $4.5 million ransom demand.

Reddit confirms BlackCat gang pinched some data
2023-06-20 18:34

Reddit this week confirmed ransomware gang BlackCat, aka AlphaV, broke into its corporate systems in February. The BlackCat crooks claimed they stole 80GB of data during the intrusion and emailed Reddit about the break-in twice, once on April 13 and a second time on June 16.

Reddit hackers threaten to leak data stolen in February breach
2023-06-18 16:01

The BlackCat ransomware gang is behind a February cyberattack on Reddit, where the threat actors claim to have stolen 80GB of data from the company. On February 9th, Reddit disclosed that its systems were hacked on February 5th after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.

BlackCat ransomware gang behind Reddit breach from February
2023-06-18 16:01

The BlackCat ransomware gang is behind a February cyberattack on Reddit, where the threat actors claim to have stolen 80GB of data from the company. On February 9th, Reddit disclosed that its systems were hacked on February 5th after an employee fell victim to a phishing attack.

Reddit is down, not loading content for mobile app users
2023-04-12 19:08

Reddit is investigating a worldwide outage that prevents users from accessing the social network's website on mobile apps. Users are reporting being automatically logged out when opening the mobile app and seeing several types of content loading errors, including "No Internet," "Sorry, please try again later," and "Let's try that again."

Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.

Reddit down in outage that blocks access to web and mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

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Week in review: VMware ESXi servers under attack, ChatGPT’s malicious potential, Reddit breached
2023-02-12 09:30

Thousands of unpatched VMware ESXi servers hit by ransomware via old bugLate last week, unknown attackers launched a widespread ransomware attack hitting VMware ESXi hypervisors via CVE-2021-21974, an easily exploitable vulnerability that allows them to run exploit code remotely, without prior authentication. Reddit breached: Internal docs, dashboards, systems accessedPopular social news website and forum Reddit has been breached and the attacker "Gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems," but apparently not to primary production systems and user data.

Reddit admits it was hacked and data stolen, says “Don’t panic”
2023-02-10 19:59

Popular social media site Reddit - "Orange Usenet with ads", as we've somewhat ungraciously heard it described - is the latest well-known web property to suffer a data breach in which its own source code was stolen. Reddit systems were hacked as a result of a sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack.

Reddit breached: Internal docs, dashboards, systems accessed
2023-02-10 10:47

Popular social news website and forum Reddit has been breached and the attacker "Gained access to some internal docs, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems," but apparently not to primary production systems and user data."Exposure included limited contact information for company contacts and employees, as well as limited advertiser information. Based on several days of initial investigation by security, engineering, and data science, we have no evidence to suggest that any of your non-public data has been accessed, or that Reddit's information has been published or distributed online," said Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, who goes online by the handle "KeyserSosa".