Cyber Extortion Meets Regulatory Pressure: ALPHV’s SEC Complaint Against MeridianLink

The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group, known for their vicious ransomware attacks, has recently taken a surprising action by filing a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against a company they allegedly hacked, MeridianLink, a company offering digital services to banks and other financial groups.

On November 7, ALPHV allegedly broke into MeridianLink’s system and then demanded a ransom, threatening to leak the company’s data according to databreaches.net. They claimed to have gotten the data without locking up …

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