{"id":1037736,"date":"2026-09-22T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037736"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T05:24:52","slug":"one-of-the-worlds-best-known-cybercrime-groups-hacks-its-top-rivals-dark-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/22\/one-of-the-worlds-best-known-cybercrime-groups-hacks-its-top-rivals-dark-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the world&#8217;s best-known cybercrime \u200cgroups hacks its top rivals&#8217; dark web site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an extraordinary public clash between two of the world\u2019s most notorious hacking syndicates, ShinyHunters, famous for its extortion tactics, or ransomware, has claimed that it has successfully hacked the dark web portal of rival cybercrime group Cl0p, bringing a long-running underground feud out into the open, a report said. Known for executing aggressive data theft operations, ShinyHunters stated that it compromised Cl0p\u2019s servers last week by uncovering an unpatched vulnerability in its software stack, using the flaw to establish broad administrative control over the rival group\u2019s digital back-end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe basically own them now,\u201d ShinyHunters said during an online exchange with news agency Reuters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an extraordinary public clash between two of the world\u2019s most notorious hacking syndicates, ShinyHunters, famous for its extortion tactics, or ransomware, has claimed that it has successfully hacked the dark web portal of rival cybercrime group Cl0p, bringing a long-running underground feud out into the open, a report said. Known for executing aggressive data theft operations, ShinyHunters stated that it compromised Cl0p\u2019s servers last week by uncovering an unpatched vulnerability in its software stack, using the flaw to establish broad administrative control over the rival group\u2019s digital back-end. \u201cWe basically own them now,\u201d ShinyHunters said during an online exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037736","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037740,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037736\/revisions\/1037740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}