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Luke Hughes

Switzerland’s cybersecurity experts still can’t Xplain how federal documents made it to the dark web

Cyber security.

Though a ransomware attack on Xplain, a Swiss software developer contracted by the country’s federal government, became known almost as it happened in late May 2023, a new report from the country’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has shed additional, disconcerting light on the extent of the incident.

Per that report (via BleepingComputer), the NCSC believe that 1.3 million files were released by the threat actor, a ransomware group known as Play, in a package on the dark web. 

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