{"id":6371,"date":"2025-08-23T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/europol-says-telegram-post-about-50000-qilin-ransomware-award-is-fake\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:06:10","slug":"europol-says-telegram-post-about-50000-qilin-ransomware-award-is-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/europol-says-telegram-post-about-50000-qilin-ransomware-award-is-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol says Telegram post about 50,000 Qilin ransomware award is fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Europol says Telegram post about 50,000 Qilin ransomware award is fake<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Some cybersecurity news outlets were duped a few days ago by a claim that Europol was offering a $50,000 bounty for information about two members of the Qilin ransomware group.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it was all a hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Read more details about what happened in my article on the Hot for Security blog<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/europol-says-telegram-post-about-50-000-qilin-ransomware-award-is-fake\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europol says Telegram post about 50,000 Qilin ransomware award is fake Some cybersecurity news outlets were duped a few days ago by a claim that Europol was offering a $50,000 bounty for information about two members of the Qilin ransomware group. Turns out it was all a hoax. Read more details about what happened in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1735,1651,54,155,164,258,1056,231,506],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bounty","category-europol","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-malware","category-qilin","category-ransomware","category-telegram","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371"}],"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=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}