Clop has discovered what life is like on the receiving end of an extortion demand after rival crew ShinyHunters hijacked its leak site and demanded an eight-figure payout. The takeover surfaced over the weekend, when Clop's dark web leak site displayed a large "DOMAIN SEIZED BY SHINYHUNTERS" banner and the tagline "rooting your systems since '19 ;)." ShinyHunters told Reuters that it broke into the site on Friday by exploiting a vulnerability in the software powering it. The crew claimed this gave it extensive access to Clop's infrastructure. "We basically own them now," it said. Clop has not responded publicly, although two security researchers told Reuters that the clash appeared genuine. The Register has also viewed the defaced site, where ShinyHunters is posting increasingly colorful demands. According to ShinyHunters, the feud dates back to Clop's attacks on Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) customers last year. ShinyHunters claims it discovered the zero-day first, only for Clop to obtain the exploit and use it against corporate networks. It now wants a share of the proceeds. In a message posted on September 19, ShinyHunters demanded an eight-figure payment, claiming the sum represented 2.333 percent of its own net worth. A later update raised the demand to "all the money you made off the EBS campaign plus more AND WITH INTEREST." ShinyHunters also threatened to identify companies that allegedly paid Clop and publish the sums and Bitcoin addresses involved. ShinyHunters turned the screw again on September 21, warning that its demands would increase with every 24 hours that Clop failed to respond. It now also wants a public apology, because apparently having your dark web extortion site hijacked isn't embarrassing enough. Clop is one of the most prolific data extortion groups in cybercrime. The gang has spent years exploiting vulnerabilities in enterprise software to steal data and extort victims, most notoriously during the 2023 MOVEit campaign, which affected thousands of organizations and exposed information belonging to tens of millions of people. ShinyHunters has an extensive rap sheet of its own, having been linked to numerous large-scale data theft and extortion campaigns. Its latest target is rather more familiar with that business model than most. The potential damage to Clop goes beyond the defacement of its leak site. If ShinyHunters has the wider access it claims and publishes records of previous ransom payments, the fallout could extend to companies that believed paying Clop had kept their identities and negotiations private. For now, though, those claims remain unverified. There is also the small matter of Clop's reputation. Leak sites are intended to demonstrate that an extortion crew has both the stolen goods and control of its operation. Having yours hijacked by a rival and repurposed to demand money from you is not exactly a glowing advertisement. ShinyHunters says the price will continue rising every 24 hours until Clop responds. The extortionists have become the extorted. ®

ARNHEM (ANP) - Een 44-jarige man uit Barneveld is veroordeeld tot zeven jaar cel voor het jarenlang seksueel misbruiken van zijn minderjarige dochter en stiefdochter. Ook maakte hij met een verborgen camera beelden van mensen in de toiletruimte van zijn woning.

Het misbruik duurde volgens de rechtbank in Arnhem bijna twaalf jaar. De slachtoffers werden vanaf jonge leeftijd misbruikt. De man gaf hun geld en cadeaus in ruil voor seks. Het misbruik ging door nadat er meldingen waren gedaan.

De rechtbank noemt de gevolgen voor de slachtoffers zeer ernstig. Uit hun verklaringen blijkt dat het misbruik grote gevolgen heeft gehad.

De straf is gelijk aan de eis van het Openbaar Ministerie. De man krijgt ook een contact- en locatieverbod. Daarnaast moet hij de slachtoffers schadevergoeding betalen. Voor de immateriële schade krijgen zij ieder 20.000 euro toegekend.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De situatie van kinderen van asielzoekers die nu in noodopvanglocaties zitten, moet beter. Dat zegt asielminister Bart van den Brink in reactie op de "urgente aanbeveling" van de Onderzoeksraad voor Veiligheid (OVV) om binnen zes maanden met verbeteringen te komen. Hij pleit voor het "versneld afbouwen van noodopvanglocaties", maar komt niet direct met maatregelen om dit te bereiken en wijst op staand beleid.

De snelste manier om dit voor elkaar te krijgen is volgens hem als gemeenten voldoende normale opvanglocaties neerzetten. Met de spreidingswet in de hand zet hij gemeenten onder druk om dat te doen. Verder noemt hij dat de druk op de opvang verlaagd kan worden door minder asielzoekers deze kant op te laten komen en door afgewezen asielzoekers terug te sturen.

"Kinderen moeten op één vaste plek kunnen blijven en niet steeds hoeven te verhuizen", aldus de CDA'er. Zijn woordvoerder zegt dat er later een beleidsreactie komt op het onderzoek.

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De stijgende energiekosten zijn "een tikkende sociale tijdbom", zegt de Zuid-Hollandse gedeputeerde Arno Bonte. De provincie liet onderzoekers berekenen hoe hoog de energierekening over 25 jaar kan zijn. "Het rapport laat zien dat huishoudens met lage inkomens en kleine bedrijven extra hard dreigen te worden geraakt door explosief stijgende energielasten", aldus Bonte.

De Tweede Kamer debatteert donderdag met minister Stientje van Veldhoven (Klimaat en Groene Groei, D66) over de energiekosten voor huishoudens. De overheid moet volgens Bonte ingrijpen om te voorkomen dat bepaalde groepen in financiële problemen komen. Voor kleine huishoudens kunnen de energiekosten verdubbelen, van 1400 naar 2800 euro per jaar. Een gemiddeld huishouden betaalt in 2050 zo'n 4400 per jaar, ruim 2000 euro meer dan nu, aldus de onderzoekers. De energierekening van een mkb-bedrijf zou stijgen van bijna 118.000 naar 215.000 euro per jaar.

AMSTERDAM (ANP) - De Woonbond, de belangenbehartiger van huurders, vindt het goed dat het kabinet inzet op meer bijbouwen van betaalbare huurwoningen met het actieplan om de woningbouw te versnellen. Maar het is volgens de Woonbond "ongehoord dat de rekening hiervoor bij huurders ligt".

Woonminister Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan (D66) kwam maandag met vijftig acties, die grotendeels al bekend waren. Volgens de huurdersvereniging kiest de minister met de plannen ook voor "hogere huren door de huurprijsregulering te laten verwateren en meer tijdelijke huurcontracten mogelijk te maken". Daarnaast lopen particuliere verhuurders en woningcorporaties tegen een "hoge belastingdruk" aan, wat "een aanslag op de nieuwbouwcapaciteit is", aldus de Woonbond. "Dat het kabinet dat in stand houdt en tegelijkertijd de huren verhoogt is ongehoord."

Verder vindt de Woonbond het "onbegrijpelijk" dat de minister weer tijdelijke huurcontracten wil, "waarmee huurders in onzekerheid zitten en hun recht niet durven halen".

Wanneer je "thuisbrengertje" er ook genoeg van heeft.

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Creators of Post Script, made with vocals by the late Mark E Smith, defend it as ‘a great, positive record’, but fiancee describes it as ‘ethically wrong’

The fiancee and last manager of the late Mark E Smith, frontman of the Fall, has hit out against the release of an album being marketed as the band’s final official album, calling it “ethically wrong” and a “cash grab”.

When Post Script was first announced in June, several media reports assumed the nine-track album contained recordings that the final Fall lineup were working on before the singer’s death, in January 2018. However, it subsequently emerged that it contains unused studio vocals recorded between 2001 and 2014, to which longtime Fall associates Ed Blaney and Simon “Ding” Archer have posthumously added music.

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Since the mammoth success of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in 2023, Hollywood has taken to jointly marketing movies released on the same day – and December’s matchup of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday could break all records

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Striker’s double rescued a 2-2 draw and extend his unbeaten record against sides coached by Gian Piero Gasperini

Gian Piero Gasperini could not keep himself from smiling. His Roma team had just squandered a two-goal lead at home to Inter but as he crossed the Stadio Olimpico pitch to greet the man who had led the visitors’ comeback, his lips formed into a grin.

“He always scores against me”, explained a laughing Gasperini when he was asked what he had said to Lautaro Martínez a short while after. “I told him to stop it! He does it to everyone, though. He’s a great champion, everyone thinks very highly of him, even if he makes all of us suffer.”

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‘In the street or at restaurants, people still come up to me and say, “I became a lawyer because of you.” But I just went to work and said my lines!’

I was doing a play in New York, Three Sisters by Chekhov. We regularly got scripts sent to us. One going around was written by David E Kelley. I flew out to Los Angeles to screen test, and I got the part right in the moment. It was a difficult transition as I felt very much settled and happy in New York and I had only been to LA briefly, to shoot The Birdcage. I was such a bad driver that I didn’t get on the freeway in LA for a year. I was afraid of it.

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Dit weekend ging ik iets drinken met een oud-student. Toen ik opmerkte dat ze er wat moe uitzag, kwam er een heel verhaal.„Mijn baas belde vorige week of ik in kon vallen”, begon…

De musical ‘Titanique’ is een campy trip zonder diepgang, waarin de grappen je om de oren vliegen.

"Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces..." reports Reuters, "in what it said could be the first ban of its kind."

But meanwhile "more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with Meta's smart glasses have sued the social media giant," reports the Los Angeles Times, "claiming their intimate and sensitive images were exposed to workers abroad who are paid to review and label photos and videos."

The contractors in Kenya work for companies that help train Meta's artificial intelligence, according to a proposed class-action lawsuit amended in late August. The smart glasses users, some in California, allege the gadget captured footage of themselves and family members undressing, going to the bathroom, having sex and entering passwords. In some cases, the people said they weren't aware the camera-equipped glasses were recording. One California user, referred to as PL18 in the lawsuit, alleges his glasses were unknowingly recording after he placed the smart glasses on the bathroom counter. "He noticed that at times photos of his family members using the bathroom and bathing began appearing in his gallery — footage no one in his household intended to take," the lawsuit said....

The 230-page lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Northern California, accuses Meta of fraud and false advertising, along with violating other consumer protection laws in various states. Tina Wolfson, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, said the case also centers on Meta's surveillance of people's lives without their consent and the exploitation of their image and likeness. "People who bought these glasses and thought that they were cool gadgets weren't aware that every time they activated AI, video was sent to train Meta's AI," said Wolfson, a principal at law firm Ahdoot & Wolfson in Burbank. Meta disagrees with the allegations and intends to fight them.
"If you use Meta AI, we may review that data to help improve our products and people's experiences — this works the same way as many other companies. We take steps to filter this data to help remove identifying information and to protect people's privacy," a Meta spokesperson said in a statement...

The lawsuit alleges people wearing the smart glasses were unwittingly transmitting data to Meta whenever they used Meta AI by saying "Hey Meta," or sometimes accidentally when adjusting the glasses. "Every activation of the AI features, intentional or accidental, captures video and audio that is transmitted to Meta's servers, routed overseas, and reviewed by low-paid human workers who watch, label, and embed these moments into Meta's AI models," the lawsuit said...

The lawsuit also seeks to block Meta from deploying biometric tools through its glasses. The company has been exploring a controversial feature called "NameTag" that would allow people to identify others... A separate lawsuit, filed in September in a federal court in Illinois, alleges Meta has been using images of people's faces uploaded to their public Facebook and Instagram accounts to train AI that powers NameTag and other AI tools.

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Ugo Ugochukwu claimed the F3 title in the final race of the season in Madrid, after he and title rival Freddie Slater began the race level on points.

Jalal O. (37), verdacht van het runnen van een drugslab, blijft erbij: hij wist niet dat er op Schammenkamp 66 dingen gebeurden die het daglicht niet konden verdragen. De Rotterdammer zegt dat maandagochtend, op de eerste dag van het proces over de explosie die op 29 januari 2024 aan drie mensen het leven kostte. Een van hen was zijn 22-jarige neef.