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Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims

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STIX ID: report--29ac961e-63c6-5523-92d3-ce598ae5d920

Feed Name: TechCrunch Security News

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-08-06

Date Updated: 2026-08-06

Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

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Google researchers report multiple criminal groups (Falcon, Helix, Pink, Redact) — possibly under an umbrella tracked as UNC6671 — conducting vishing campaigns against large U.S. financial, legal, and enterprise targets to steal credentials/MFA and extort victims via public leak sites; observed ransom demands are typically $750k–$3M and one associated crypto wallet received roughly $10M.

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