{"id":1037129,"date":"2026-09-21T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037129"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T02:39:51","slug":"cybercrime-feud-erupts-on-dark-web-as-notorious-group-claims-hijack-of-rivals-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/21\/cybercrime-feud-erupts-on-dark-web-as-notorious-group-claims-hijack-of-rivals-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercrime feud erupts on dark web as notorious group claims hijack of rival&#8217;s website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s best-known cybercrime groups said on Sunday it had hijacked one of its chief rivals&#8217; dark web site, bringing what it said was a long-simmering feud out into the open. <\/p>\n<p>ShinyHunters, a digital extortion group known for aggressive data theft campaigns, said it broke into the dark web site of cybercrime gang cl0p on Friday after discovering a vulnerability in cl0p&#8217;s software and using it to establish wide-ranging control over the group&#8217;s infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We basically own them now,&#8221; ShinyHunters said in an online chat with Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s best-known cybercrime groups said on Sunday it had hijacked one of its chief rivals&#8217; dark web site, bringing what it said was a long-simmering feud out into the open. ShinyHunters, a digital extortion group known for aggressive data theft campaigns, said it broke into the dark web site of cybercrime gang cl0p on Friday after discovering a vulnerability in cl0p&#8217;s software and using it to establish wide-ranging control over the group&#8217;s infrastructure. &#8220;We basically own them now,&#8221; ShinyHunters said in an online chat with Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037150,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037129\/revisions\/1037150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}