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Over the past few days, I’ve been asked by many people what I think about reports that Serbian police arrested a member of TheDarkOverlord. Some journalists seem to be going even further and reporting that multiple arrests have been made. I’… Continue reading So was TheDarkOverlord really arrested?
In July, 2013, H-E Parts International, a manufacturer of aftermarket parts and components for the mining industry, acquired The Morgan Group. Morgan already had an established reputation for servicing the mining, oil, and gas industries. Together, H-… Continue reading H-E Parts Morgan hacked – TheDarkOverlord
If students are at risk of significant emotional damage because highly sensitive information has been hacked and held for an extortion payment, should a school district pay or not? And if they do pay, should they admit that publicly? Last year, Columbi… Continue reading Did Columbia Falls Schools treat an extortion payment made to TheDarkOverlord as a dirty little secret?
On January 31, 2018, the FBI released a Private Industry Notification (PIN) warning schools about the hacker(s) known as TheDarkOverlord. The information in the PIN was provided by the FBI and the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector… Continue reading FBI Private Industry Notification warns schools about TheDarkOverlord
On Friday, December 1, lawyers for an infosec researcher who has been in jail since April will argue that U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey should release Justin Shafer from jail while he awaits trial. For those who are not familiar with the case, S… Continue reading Court dates set in Justin Shafer case
Recently, in an encrypted chat, a spokesperson for TheDarkOverlord (TDO) commented to me how their attack on Little Red Door in Indiana is still getting media attention. Not surprisingly to me, attacking a charity that helps cancer patients seemed to generate a particularly strong emotional response among members of the pubic. Well, that and threatening […] Continue reading Charities unprepared for cyber attack risk
There are a few interesting details on the Montana (Flathead) attack by TheDarkOverlord (TDO) in an article by Eli Francovich in The Spokesman-Review. It sounds like TDO used methods they’ve used in the past and did a good job of covering their digital footprints. I’ve started looking into the Flathead/Columbia Falls incident a bit more […] Continue reading Montana district hacked, threatened by TheDarkOverlord; offers lessons to Spokane-area schools
Attorneys for Justin Shafer have appealed the revocation of his pretrial release. As regular readers of this site likely know already, Shafer has been in jail since April on charges of cyberstalking an FBI agent and the agent’s family. Those cyberstalking charges have nothing to do with three FBI raids conducted on Shafer prior to […] Continue reading Shafer’s attorney appeals revocation of his pretrial release
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, part of the GCHQ, saw fit to include a notice about TheDarkOverlord in their Weekly Threat Report of November 3. Their weekly threat report is drawn from open source reporting. The Dark Overlord – Systematic cyber-enabled extortion A cyber crime group called ‘The Dark Overlord’ has claimed responsibility for […] Continue reading UK’s National Cyber Security Centre makes note of TheDarkOverlord
DataBreaches.net has been reporting on TheDarkOverlord (TDO) since they first burst on the scene in June, 2016. Since then, this site has reported on numerous attacks by them on health care entities, financial and business entities, a Hollywood post-production studio, and a defense contractor. Now they have begun to target the education sector, and an official at the […] Continue reading No holds barred? TheDarkOverlord threatens students with physical violence to send FBI a message to back off