{"id":1203896,"date":"2023-11-16T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203896"},"modified":"2023-11-16T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T00:03:35","slug":"ransomware-group-reports-victim-it-breached-to-sec-regulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203896","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ransomware-800x600-1.jpe\" alt=\"Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ransomware.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"750\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual\u2014if not unprecedented\u2014tactic to pressure one of its victims to pay up: reporting the victim to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure tactic came to light in a post published on Wednesday on the dark web site run by AlphV, a ransomware crime syndicate that\u2019s been in operation for two years. After first claiming to have breached the network of the publicly traded digital lending company MeridianLink, AlphV officials posted a screenshot of a complaint it said it filed with the SEC through the agency\u2019s website. Under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/corpfin\/secg-cybersecurity\">recently adopted rule<\/a> that goes into effect next month, publicly traded companies must file an SEC disclosure within four days of learning of a security incident that had a \u201cmaterial\u201d impact on their business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to bring to your attention a concerning issue regarding MeridianLink&#8217;s compliance with the recently adopted cybersecurity incident disclosure rules,\u201d AlphV officials wrote in the complaint. \u201cIt has come to our attention that MeridianLink, in light of a significant breach compromising customer data and operational information, has failed to file the requisite disclosure under item 1.05 of form 8-K within the stipulated four business days, as mandated by the new SEC rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984663#p3\">Read 10 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984663&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1984663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ransomware group reports victim it breached to SEC regulators<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the world\u2019s most active ransomware groups has taken an unusual\u2014if not unprecedented\u2014tactic to pressure one of its victims to pay up: reporting the victim to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The pressure tactic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1203896\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1203896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}