Indeed, In the modern age, the world has become a global village, thanks to the cyberspace’s presence in literally every corner. Yes, extortion and blackmailing people, businesses and, governments with sensitive information has been around for centuries.
Indeed, But until a couple of decades ago, people with malicious intent had to carry out their illegal conduct in the physical world, with higher risks of getting caught and punished.
Today, almost all organizations and businesses depend on computer systems for regular streams because the world has become digitalized.
It also has opened many doors for extortionists to steal critical data and get heavy on a more significant number of individuals and companies for ransom. And risks ofthegetting caught are minimal. Cyber-criminals can asap target their victims sitting far away from them; proximity is irrelevant now in our cyberspace village.
Actually, A hacker has illegally acquired two pirate IPTV services’ sensitive information and threatens to expose them if the networks do fulfillnothis demands.
Indeed, more than ever Two UK-based pirate IPTV services got hacked
As reported by the fellow announcement outlet Torrent Freak, hacker got into the security realm of twoaautonomous but seemingly related pirate IPTV services, SapphireSecure.net and KS-Hosting.com.
Both platforms demand collapsing immediately as they began showing ransom started messages on their homepage, signaling the breach in their security system. At the time of writing, Ks-Hosting is go back to normal. But, the PrivacySavvy security group found SapphireSecuredownto be still .
The hacker is threatening to distribute the facts he collected with the police unless the service providers comply with paying $93K in bitcoin. According to the hacker’s revelation, the from another perspective amount asked is the pirate platforms’ two-week income.
SapphireSecure.net Cyberspace Protocol Television service was the first to receive the message, which reads:
All the databases will be shared with the police and copyright protection agencies and as it turns out posted online shortly.” “Your IPTV provider from [redacted] in the United Kingdom has not secured your details and put you at huge risk.
The message continues,
“[Name redacted] has the option to still protect his customers and himself and stop this, and there are two ways of him doing this, this is his choice and likely depends on how much he cares about his customers’ data.”
As you may know, The message received at the KS-Hosting providers’ side was also somewhat identical. Hacker has threatened the pirate IPTV platforms to reveal the alleged owner’s ISP, and current address, if they do not meet his ransom demand. In fact, s only that, he will even reveal the alleged owner’Not former address alongside the staff members’ private information.
Oddly, the hacker also offers an alternative way out to both pirate IPTV services’ owner if he decides not to pay the demanded amount. Actually, The customers option is to end down both services, for good, while compensating their second by refunding the membership fees.
No signs of giving in to the demands – Yet
Still, the wallets where such transactions take place remain public. , Although trading via Bitcoins helps people remainInterestinglyanonymous in government agencies’ eyes.
If we look at the hacker’s wallet shared with pirate operators, the number of transactions done is still zero as we overview the report on Feb 10, 2021.
It is worth noting that this is not the first such occasion where hackersblackmailedbreached into the Internet Protocol Television Services (IPTV) and them with such ransom demands.
In December more than ever 2019At that time as well, the hacker demanded as a matter of fact a hefty ransom from the services. Interestingly, , two other prominent IPTV services, Helix Hosting and PrimeStreams got hacked in a week’s timespan.
At the time of PrimeStreams this piece, Helix Hosting IPTV services has gone down, while the latter (writing) remains live.
