{"id":13122,"date":"2026-05-25T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/weekly-update-505\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:03:56","slug":"weekly-update-505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/weekly-update-505\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Update 505"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Weekly Update 505<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fb\/33\/fb3391dc-723d-4e74-b95a-d641b5feb38e\/content\/images\/2026\/05\/Splash-Template%401x_1.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Weekly Update 505\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, that didn&#8217;t last long! Recording this on Saturday morning my time, I observed ShinyHunters having gone quiet since the massive haul that would have been the Instructure ransom. It was two weeks almost to the hour since I&#8217;d first heard rumour of payment being made, and I posited that groups like this often go quiet after they feel the heat, only to emerge shortly after, the drug that is hacking being too strong to ignore. Anyway, here we now are:<\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 ShinyHunters Claims 3 New Victims<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/v8Wf457Gbp?ref=troyhunt.com\">https:\/\/t.co\/v8Wf457Gbp<\/a>: U.S.-based dental benefits administrator and oral health company.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 Charter Communications, Inc.: U.S. telecommunications and cable company best known for Spectrum internet, TV, mobile, and phone services.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/epWcVVGRHa?ref=troyhunt.com\">pic.twitter.com\/epWcVVGRHa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarkWebInformer\/status\/2057968306124980690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\">May 22, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!--kg-card-end: html--><\/p>\n<p>DentaQuest has since been removed, but <a href=\"https:\/\/dentaquest.com\/?ref=troyhunt.com\" rel=\"noreferrer\">their website<\/a> is currently returning &#8220;Access Denied&#8221;, which isn&#8217;t a great look. Obviously, the broken website doesn&#8217;t look great, but neither do the optics of potentially having paid a ransom. But that does seem to be the way that many of these incidents are going now \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <\/p>\n<p><!--kg-card-begin: html--><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"width: 170px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/troy-hunts-weekly-update-podcast\/id1176454699?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fb\/33\/fb3391dc-723d-4e74-b95a-d641b5feb38e\/content\/images\/2018\/05\/Listen-on-Apple-Podcasts.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 505\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 175px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL7LAAxaabizMAXnJe0s3xjQ30q12EVmjt&amp;ref=troyhunt.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fb\/33\/fb3391dc-723d-4e74-b95a-d641b5feb38e\/content\/images\/2024\/09\/Watch-and-Listen-on-YouTube.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 505\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 118px; display: inline-block; margin-right: 3px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7jMtKFohdrw6qmz8AkLqit?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fb\/33\/fb3391dc-723d-4e74-b95a-d641b5feb38e\/content\/images\/2019\/10\/spotify.svg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"Weekly Update 505\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 120px; display: inline-block;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/troy-hunt-weekly-update\/playlists\/podcast.rss?ref=troy-hunt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storage.ghost.io\/c\/fb\/33\/fb3391dc-723d-4e74-b95a-d641b5feb38e\/content\/images\/2018\/07\/Download-via-RSS.svg\" alt=\"Weekly Update 505\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xher1Mtwxro\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" spellcheck=\"false\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--kg-card-end: html-->\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Troy Hunt<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/weekly-update-505\/\">Go to troyhunt<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekly Update 505 Well, that didn&#8217;t last long! Recording this on Saturday morning my time, I observed ShinyHunters having gone quiet since the massive haul that would have been the Instructure ransom. It was two weeks almost to the hour since I&#8217;d first heard rumour of payment being made, and I posited that groups like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,135],"tags":[856,2488,153],"class_list":["post-13122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troyhunttroyhunt","category-weekly-update","tag-but","tag-since","tag-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}