> TritonInfoSec News
Home / Oct 09, 2026 / Story
0
#8 The Hacker News general October 08, 2026 at 07:41 UTC

MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

The DOJ charged MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi (also known as Zack Silver and Zack Green) with wire fraud for secretly paying ransomware operators to obtain decryptors while billing victims over $19 million for purportedly proprietary recovery technology — a markup of approximately $11 million. The case exposes a predatory niche in the ransomware recovery industry and raises due-diligence questions for organizations vetting incident response vendors.

Read full article → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/monstercloud-own…

Relevance score: 76.0/100

# More from October 09

  1. 1
    Cisco warns of critical flaws allowing Nexus switch takeover BleepingComputer
  2. 2
    Attackers Target Critical Atlassian Vulnerability Within Hours of PoC Publication SecurityWeek
  3. 3
    FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins BleepingComputer
  4. 4
    FBI disrupts Chinese hacking tools used to breach critical infrastructure BleepingComputer
  5. 5
    Oracle Health Data Breach Tally Climbs to Nearly 20 Million SecurityWeek
  6. 6
    FortiBleed Attackers Locking Victims Out of Fortinet Devices SecurityWeek
  7. 7
    ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms The Hacker News
  8. 9
    Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains The Hacker News
  9. 10
    FakeGit malware campaign returns with 17,610 malicious GitHub repos BleepingComputer