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‼️🇦🇹🇹🇷🇨🇱 DireWolf Ransomware claims a well known video game publisher and 2 hospitals

🇦🇹 THQ Nordic - An Austrian video game publisher and developer based in Vienna, known for franchises including Darksiders, Destroy All Humans!, and SpongeBob SquarePants titles. The listing claims 335 GB of data.

🇹🇷 Erdem Hospital - A Turkish private healthcare provider operating hospitals and medical facilities offering a range of diagnostic, surgical, and specialist services. The listing claims 260 GB of data.

🇨🇱 Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile - A major university teaching hospital in Santiago affiliated with the University of Chile, providing specialized medical care, education, and clinical research. The listing claims 240 GB of data.

🚨🇫🇷 Courir internal infrastructure allegedly compromised, persistent access offered for sale on a cybercrime forum by LAPSUS$ Group.
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Courir, a French footwear and sneaker retailer, is allegedly affected by a significant security breach after a threat actor claimed to have compromised multiple segments of the company's production and development infrastructure.
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The actor claims the intrusion followed a multi-week operation in which internal systems were mapped, compromised and data was exfiltrated. The group is now advertising what it describes as exclusive access packages to Courir's environment.
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The advertised access includes:
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• Internal developer panels
• Full administrative control over development portals
• Internal management interfaces
• High-privilege service accounts
• Alternative internal access points
• Persistent footholds across multiple infrastructure segments
• Internal routing pathways
• Claimed lateral movement across corporate environments
• Access to production and development systems
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The post includes multiple screenshots presented as proof of access and attributes the alleged compromise to a member of the group operating under the name 3xpl0rat0r.
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No public asking price is provided, with prospective buyers directed to negotiate privately.
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The claims and the authenticity, scope and current validity of the allegedly compromised access have not been independently verified.
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1/2🚨🇫🇷 Five French fire and rescue services allegedly targeted in data leaks, nearly 20K personnel records claimed
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A threat actor has published datasets allegedly belonging to five French departmental fire and rescue services (SDIS) across Vosges, Bas-Rhin, Moselle, Gard and Bouches-du-Rhône. Combined, the listings claim information associated with approximately 19,952 people across 22,555 records/lines.
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The affected organizations and claimed figures include:
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• SDIS 88, Vosges: 3,067 people, 4,226 lines, 175 MB CSV
• SDIS 67, Bas-Rhin: 3,584 people, 4,423 lines, 5.83 MB JSON
• SDIS 57, Moselle: 6,434 people, 6,449 lines, 3.20 MB JSON
• SDIS 30, Gard: 3,168 people, 3,757 lines, 300 KB CSV
• SDIS 13, Bouches-du-Rhône: 3,699 people, 3,700 lines, 635 KB JSON
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The advertised data across the leaks includes:
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• Personnel names
• Employee and personnel IDs
• Ranks and job titles
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Fire and rescue center assignments
• Groups and departmental affiliations
• User and account records
• Access rights information
• Login and connection records
• Internal IP addresses
• Password recovery records
• Training and course information
• Additional internal personnel data
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The actor published samples and download links for the alleged datasets. The SDIS 67 post also includes several links claimed to provide access to associated Google Drive folders.
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The claims and the authenticity, source and scope of the allegedly exposed data have not been independently verified.
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I suspect something that hurts Mastodon adoption is that when you first join, assuming you don't join Mastodon.social, you get a server list:

https://joinmastodon.org/servers

But many of the top servers block sign ups, e.g. social.vivaldi.net and mstdn.ca

The Economist piece around overblown frontier AI fears.

Remember if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit anything.

New article: this time, we use Heidegger to explain why the "it's just a tool" line that often comes up in tech is so very silly:

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool