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Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.
Elsewhere in the crypto-tracing world, a US lawmaker this week introduced a resolution calling on the White House to classify former IRS investigator Tigran Gambaryan as a hostage due to his current imprisonment in Nigeria. The Heritage Foundation—a right-wing think tank whose “Project 2025” plan for molding the US into what critics describe as an autocratic Christian nationalist state ruled by an Über President Donald Trump—suffered a minor cyberattack this week at the gloved hands of self-described “gay furry hackers.” The breach itself appears to have been fairly minor—2 gigabytes of data taken from a blog called the Daily Signal. In fact, following Change Healthcare’s payment, researchers at security firm Recorded Future saw the largest spike in ransomware attacks targeting the health care industry in the four years that it has tracked the criminal activity.
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