More than 200, 000 information from high-profile ransomware group Black Basta have leaked online.
The leak of more than a year of communications, as Ars Technica Friday ( Feb. 21 ) exposes the group’s tactics, as well as an internal rift among its members.
According to the report, messages that members of the Matrix talk program sent each other between September 2023 and September 2024 are said to be the source of the leak, according to researchers.
The whistleblower claimed the action was retaliation for Black Basta’s attack on Russian banks, though it’s not known whether the person concerned was an outsider or a member of the hacker group who gained access to Black Basta’s communications, according to the report.
In on 500 companies around the world, according to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Black Basta had targeted 12 of America’s 16 essential infrastructure businesses last year. One of these problems was on , a St. Louis-based health care system with 140 hospitals across 19 state.  ,
” Black Basta’s inside chats just got exposed, proving once again that scammers are their own worst opponents”, a part of security firm Prodaft wrote Thursday, per the Ars Technica report. ” Stay burning our brains options, we don’t mind”.
According to the report, researchers claim that the leaks reveal internal conflict within the ransom group, which has gotten worse since one of its rulers ‘ arrests, raising the risk of other members being apprehended.
In light of reports that 190 million people were affected by the large breach at Change Healthcare, PYMNTS just wrote about the electronic security landscape in other cybercrime news.  ,
” With companies increasingly digitized, the bets for protecting consumer information have never been higher”, that statement said.
According to research from PYMNTS Intelligence, the proportion of chief operating officers ( COOs ) who claim their businesses have adopted automated cybersecurity management systems powered by artificial intelligence ( AI ) have tripled.
That figure had reached 55 % in August 2024, climbing from about 17 % last May. Each of the COOs questioned came from a business that generates more than$ 1 billion in annual revenue.
” Complicating the scenery is continued uncertainty around whether data encryption should be used to protect data at rest, in travel, or even in use,” PYMNTS wrote. This could give organizations the opportunity to make claims that they are compliant even when using what might be viewed as archaic or insufficient encryption protocols in comparison to modern .