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FBI Suffers Breach, Clop Hijacks IDScan

| 2026-10-27 14:00 CRITICAL HIGH DATA BREACH
Executive Summary
AI-generated
A major cyber attack occurred in September 2026, with the FBI being breached and a Dark Web service advertising over 153 million US and Canadian driver's license scans linked to an identity verification provider. The breach was attributed to North Korean patterns by Bitget's CEO, while blockchain analysts linked funds used for laundering earlier North Korea-attributed attacks to wallets involved in this incident. This attack affected hundreds of organizations compromised by a single actor using AI agents, with sensitive customer and patient data from US utilities, healthcare technology companies, and major fintech firms also disclosed. The attackers exploited an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day flaw, which was later confirmed as CVE-2026-35273, to gain access to the FBI's systems through Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud.
Technical Mitigations AI-generated
• Patch Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day CVE-2026-35273 immediately to prevent exploitation by ShinyHunters. • Monitor AWS GovCloud for signs of unauthorized access and implement additional security measures to protect against data breaches like the one claimed by ShinyHunters. • Regularly review and update plugins, source code, logs, and private keys in Grav content management systems to prevent abuse by threat actors.
Intelligence Metadata
Actors / Malware / CVEs / Campaigns
ZIRCONIUMZIRCONIUMShinyHuntersShinyHuntersThe GentlemenThe Gentlemen CVE-2026-42608CVE-2026-42608 CVE-2026-87491CVE-2026-87491 CVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-82078CVE-2026-82078 CVE-2026-85046CVE-2026-85046 CVE-2026-88772CVE-2026-88772 CVE-2026-88771CVE-2026-88771 CVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-85880 CVE-2026-35273CVE-2026-35273
Target & Sectors
DPRK DPRK NORTH_AMERICA NORTH_AMERICA ASEAN ASEAN governmentgovernment healthhealth technologytechnology financefinance cryptocurrencycryptocurrency
Incident Timeline
‎September 3 and 4, 2026
Threat actors, tracked as UTA0560 and UTA0565, used phishing tactics to target US-based NGOs on September 1, 2026.
target_region United States
organisation GRIMWEDGE JScript backdoor
organisation UTA0565
‎January 2019
Threat actors exploited a vulnerability to hijack the Clop malware, leading to unauthorized access and leak of approximately 490 million image metadata records from Gyazo.
data_breach 490 metadata records
organisation Gyazo
‎April 2026
Threat actors exploited the vulnerability in Clop's 1.7 branch, which was not patched until version 1.7.53.4 shipped on September 24, 2026.
infrastructure 2.0
infrastructure 1.7
infrastructure 1.7.53
general_metric 2.0 version
general_metric 1.7 branch
‎May 2026
Threat actors ShinyHunters exploited a previously disclosed PeopleSoft vulnerability, CVE-2026-35273, to target the FBI's Canvas campaign.
threat_actor ShinyHunters
vulnerability CVE-2026-35273
attribution FBI
organisation Canvas
‎June 2026
ShinyHunters exploited the previously disclosed PeopleSoft flaw CVE-2026-35273 in June 2026.
threat_actor ShinyHunters
vulnerability CVE-2026-35273
attribution FBI
organisation Canvas
‎August 7, 2026
Threat actors exploited a patch gap in Chrome to gain unauthorized access, coinciding with the FBI breach and IDScan leak.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
‎August 27, 2026
Both flaws were already disclosed: PaperCut published its advisory on August 27, 2026, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on August 31, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation PaperCut
organisation Known Exploited
tactic T1588.006 - Vulnerabilities
organisation KEV
‎August 28, 2026
Threat actors associated with APT31 installed the LONGTALE malicious browser extension on a user's device, marking the first observed incident of this actor.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
threat_actor ZIRCONIUM
organisation LONGTALE
‎August 31, 2026
Threat actors used the BlueMoon exploit kit to target at least 280 victims, including 20 in eight countries where agents failed to follow instructions.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation PaperCut
organisation Known Exploited
tactic T1588.006 - Vulnerabilities
organisation KEV
infrastructure Windows
organisation Google Chrome
organisation Microsoft
victims 280 victims
victims 20 victims
‎September 1, 2026
Threat actors used a Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) heap overflow vulnerability to target US-based non-governmental organizations via phishing, which then exploited multiple vulnerabilities including V8 type confusion and out-of-bounds write flaws.
target_region United States
organisation Nexus
target_region Canada
general_metric 153 license scans
general_metric 10 ID cards
general_metric 3 travel documents
general_metric 579,000 medical cards
organisation GRIMWEDGE JScript backdoor
organisation UTA0565
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
infrastructure Windows
‎September 2, 2026
Researchers used exploits for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to target at least 440 compromised instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
victims 395 Organizations
organisation PoC
‎September 3, 2026
Threat actors exploited a patch gap in Chrome to gain unauthorized access, coinciding with the FBI breach and IDScan leak on September 3, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
‎September 4, 2026
At least nine class actions were filed by September 4, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation KYC
‎September 5, 2026
The Gentlemen claimed 237 victims in the 60 days before listing Veradigm's breach on its Dark Web leak site, where it threatened to publish 3.5 million patient records unless paid a ransom.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
tactic Ransomware
threat_actor The Gentlemen
data_breach 3.5 Records technology company
organisation Veradigm
victims 237 victims
‎September 8, 2026
The Gentlemen claimed 3.5 million Veradigm patient records, following a previously undisclosed third-party vendor breach that occurred in September 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
infrastructure Windows
infrastructure 152.0.7977
infrastructure 153.0.8010
organisation Google
threat_actor The Gentlemen
organisation Allscripts
data_breach 3.5 Records technology company
threat_actor ZIRCONIUM
organisation Ministry of State Security
organisation BlueMoon
data_breach 4 September
data_breach 9 September
data_breach 2026 September
‎September 11, 2026
Threat actors exploited a vulnerability in Gyazo's image upload server to gain unauthorized access, which was later hijacked by Clop and resulted in the leak of IDScan data.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
‎September 12, 2026
Threat actors impersonating a government agency obtained sensitive customer data, including identity and financial records, from Revolut.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation Revolut Handed Customer Data
organisation Revolut
organisation International Bank Account Numbers
organisation XMR
financial $3 XMR
victims 80 customers
‎September 14, 2026
Threat actors hijacked Clop, a ransomware group, to steal sensitive data from CenterPoint and leak it on the dark web.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
target_region United States
organisation CenterPoint
organisation the US Securities and Exchange Commission
organisation SEC
‎September 15, 2026
Threat actors hijacked Gyazo's systems, causing images to fail to load while simultaneously breaching the platform and leaking user IDScan data.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
target_region Japan
organisation Gyazo’s
‎September 16, 2026
A breach of Helpfeel's Gyazo image-sharing service exposed approximately 23.62 million user records, including email addresses and password hashes.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation Gyazo Breach
organisation Helpfeel
general_metric 23.62 based Helpfeel
data_breach 23.62 user records
‎September 18, 2026
ShinyHunters hijacked Clop's Dark Web leak site, abusing a Grav content management system flaw to deface it and set a 72-hour deadline.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
tactic Ransomware
threat_actor ShinyHunters
organisation CMS
general_metric 72 Hour
organisation Domain Seized
organisation Tor
‎September 22, 2026
ShinyHunters claimed to have breached FBI systems through a new, unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day and stolen data on bureau employees and job applicants.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
threat_actor ShinyHunters
data_breach 5,000 purported employee records
attribution FBI
attribution FBI Breach
organisation Purported Staff Records
organisation Oracle PeopleSoft
organisation PeopleSoft
organisation Amazon
organisation TB
data_breach 3 TB
‎September 24, 2026
Suspected North Korean Hackers used Clop's vulnerable server to steal $387.5 million from Bitget cryptocurrency exchange on September 24, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
infrastructure 2.0
infrastructure 1.7
infrastructure 1.7.53
general_metric 2.0 version
general_metric 1.7 branch
source_region DPRK
organisation Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole
financial $387.5 Hackers
threat_actor ShinyHunters
‎September 27, 2026
Threat actors exploited two critical NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws, CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, to target up to 120,000 hosts per run.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
infrastructure 14.1-73
infrastructure 13.1-64
organisation NetScaler ADC
infrastructure 120,000 Hosts
organisation Datagram Transport Layer Security
organisation DTLS
‎September 28, 2026
Threat actors exploited the CVE-2026-88771 vulnerability to hijack Clop, leading to a breach of IDScan and subsequent intrusions into finance, health, technology, cryptocurrency, and government systems.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
tactic Lateral Movement
vulnerability CVE-2026-88771
organisation CVE-2026
‎September 29, 2026
Threat actors hijacked the Clop ransomware group to target and breach the VeriScan platform, resulting in unauthorized access from April 4 to September 2, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
‎early September 2026
Threat actors exploited CVE-2026-88772 vulnerability in early September 2026, three days before a breach was detected.
vulnerability CVE-2026-88772
‎September 2026
ShinyHunters hijacked the Clop ransomware gang's Dark Web leak site, leading to a breach of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) four days later.
attribution FBI Breach
organisation Dark
victims 395 Organizations
infrastructure Windows
threat_actor ShinyHunters
‎October 1, 2026
Threat actors using the alias "4d722e4d656f77" exploited a vulnerable public API, enumerated and leaked 7.49 million customer records from CenterPoint Energy's systems.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation SOCRadar
organisation Threat Research Unit
organisation NetScaler
general_metric 30 minutes
organisation CenterPoint Energy Data Theft
organisation CenterPoint Energy
organisation FOFA
infrastructure 120,000 Hosts
organisation Social Security
data_breach 7.49 customer records
organisation API
‎October 2, 2026
Threat actors, linked to known North Korean patterns, hijacked Bitget's cryptocurrency accounts and laundered stolen ETH, XRP, BNB, AVAX, USDT, and USDC across seven blockchain chains.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation Bitget’s
organisation ETH
organisation XRP
organisation BNB
organisation USDT
organisation USDC
organisation Bitget’s User Protection Fund
‎October 5, 2026
The FBI's Cyber Division announced on October 5, 2026, that a contractor had failed to apply an available patch, leading to the hijacking of Clop ransomware and subsequent leak of IDScan data.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
organisation Cyber Division
‎October 9, 2026
The FBI Director announced the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters co-conspirator on October 9, 2026.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
threat_actor ShinyHunters
attribution FBI
‎October 27, 2026
The FBI breach, attributed to the Clop hijack and IDScan leak, involved unauthorized access to customer data in Oracle's PeopleSoft system.
industry Finance
industry Health
industry Technology
industry Cryptocurrency
industry Government
attribution FBI
organisation Oracle
organisation TraderTraitor
organisation IDScan Confirmed
infrastructure Windows
financial $1 theft
organisation Attack Surface Management
organisation Yağmur Ernalbant Yağmur
‎August 27 and September 2, 2026
A Russian-speaking actor exploited vulnerabilities in PaperCut NG/MF print management servers to compromise hundreds of AI agents, which were then used to target 395 organizations between August 27 and September 2, 2026.
target_region Russian Federation
organisation PaperCut NG/MF
victims 395 Organizations
‎April 4 to September 2, 2026
Threat actors exploited a vulnerability in the VeriScan platform, resulting in unauthorized access from April 4 to September 2, 2026.
‎August 17 to September 1, 2026
Threat actors allegedly breached the FBI's systems from August 17 to September 1, 2026.
Tactical Metrics
Metrics
victims
395
Organizations
Metrics
infrastructure
‎Windows
Affected Product
Metrics
data_breach
3
Tb
Metrics
data_breach
5,000
Purported Employee Records
Metrics
infrastructure
‎2.0
Software Version
Metrics
infrastructure
‎1.7
Software Version
Metrics
infrastructure
‎1.7.53
Software Version
Metrics
financial
387,500,000
Financial Impact / Stolen Funds
Metrics
financial
1,000,000,000
Financial Impact / Stolen Funds
Metrics
infrastructure
‎152.0.7977
Software Version
Metrics
infrastructure
‎153.0.8010
Software Version
Metrics
infrastructure
‎14.1-73
Software Version
Metrics
infrastructure
‎13.1-64
Software Version
Metrics
data_breach
4
September
Metrics
data_breach
9
September
Metrics
data_breach
2,026
September
Metrics
infrastructure
120,000
Hosts
Metrics
data_breach
7,490,000
Customer Records
Metrics
data_breach
23,620,000
User Records
Metrics
data_breach
490,000,000
Metadata Records
Metrics
financial
3,000,000
Xmr
Metrics
data_breach
3,500,000
Records Technology Company
Metrics
victims
237
Victims
Metrics
victims
280
Victims
Metrics
victims
20
Victims
Metrics
victims
80,000,000
Customers
Intelligence Sources
SOCRadar CTI Blog 2026-10-27