{"id":165719,"date":"2023-06-13T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hacking-group-targets-file-transfer-tool-leading-to-major-data-breaches-government-warns"},"modified":"2023-06-13T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:23:13","slug":"hacking-group-targets-file-transfer-tool-leading-to-major-data-breaches-government-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/hacking-group-targets-file-transfer-tool-leading-to-major-data-breaches-government-warns","title":{"rendered":"Hacking group targets file transfer tool, leading to major data breaches, government warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-group-targets-file-transfer-tool-leading-to-major-data-breaches-government-warns2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A hacking group believed to be behind a cybercrime spree in 2021 is once again involved in an active hacking campaign targeting a file transfer tool that could lead to a wave of data breaches, according to US cybersecurity officials.<\/p>\n<p>The hacking group, named \u201cCL0P,\u201d is targeting a file transfer tool called MOVEit that belongs to Progress Software Corp., according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/cybersecurity-advisories\/aa23-158a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>joint advisory<\/b><\/a> by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI on June 7.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say CL0P has been attempting to steal data belonging to MOVEit clients since at least May 27. A confirmed victim includes Zellis, a UK-based payroll services provider whose clients include British Airways and the BBC, reports Law360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hacking group believed to be behind a cybercrime spree in 2021 is once again involved in an active hacking campaign targeting a file transfer tool that could lead to a wave of data breaches, according to US cybersecurity officials. The hacking group, named \u201cCL0P,\u201d is targeting a file transfer tool called MOVEit that belongs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}