Website of Everest ransomware group hacked and defaced

📟 News

Date: 08/04/2025

Last weekend, the darknet website of the Everest ransomware group was hacked and went offline. The attackers replaced its content with a sarcastic message: “Don’t do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague.”

Apparently, Everest operators took down their website after the attack: the resource cannot be loaded and displays an “Onion site not found” error message.

It’s not yet known how the attackers gained access to the Everest website and whether it was actually hacked. Tammy Harper, Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher at Flare, and other experts believe that a potential WordPress vulnerability could be exploited in this attack.

According to Harper, Everest used a WordPress template in their blog, and this could be the case.

The Everest ransomware group has been active since 2020. Over the past years, it completely changed its tactics: from ‘standard’ data thefts for subsequent extortion to the use of ransomware that encrypts compromised systems.

In addition, Everest resells gained accesses to organizations’ networks to other hacker groups and cybercriminals.

Over the five years of activity, Everest published information about 230 victims on its darknet website. The resource was used to implement a classic double extortion scheme: hackers forced victims to pay a ransom under the threat of disclosing stolen sensitive data.

In August 2024, the United States Department of Health and Human Services warned that Everest is increasingly frequently targeting healthcare organizations in the US.

US authorities implicate Everest in several attacks, including data leaks from NASA and the Brazilian government.

Related posts:
2025.02.08 — Hackers exploit RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) Agencies that they have to secure their systems from ongoing…

Full article →
2025.01.29 — Google to disable Sync in older Chrome versions

Google announced that in early 2025, Chrome Sync will be disabled in Chrome versions older than four years. Chrome Sync enables users to save and sync their…

Full article →
2025.03.05 — Polish Space Agency disconnects its network due to hacker attack

Last weekend, the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) had to disconnect all of its systems from the Internet to localize an attack targeting its IT infrastructure. After discovering the intrusion,…

Full article →
2025.02.01 — Critical RCE vulnerability fixed in Cacti

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the open-source Cacti framework: it enables an authenticated attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. Vulnerability's ID is CVE-2025-22604; its…

Full article →
2025.03.24 — Alexa to stop processing data locally. All voice requests will be sent to Amazon Cloud

Amazon announced that the privacy option allowing users of Echo speakers to avoid sending their voice recordings to the company's cloud will no longer be supported. Effective March…

Full article →
2025.02.21 — Microsoft fixes vulnerability in Power Pages exploited by cybercriminals

Microsoft patched a severe privilege escalation vulnerability in Power Pages used by hackers as a 0-day. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-24989 (CVSS score 8.2) pertains…

Full article →
2025.02.07 — 768 vulnerabilities were exploited by hackers in 2024

According to VulnCheck, 768 CVEs were registered as exploited in real-life attacks in 2024. This is 20% greater compared to 2023 when hackers exploited 639 vulnerabilities. Interestingly,…

Full article →
2025.02.06 — Let's Encrypt to stop sending expiration notification emails

The nonprofit organization announced that, starting June 4, 2025, it will stop sending expiration notification emails to subscribers. The primary reason behind this decision…

Full article →
2025.04.07 — Critical RCE vulnerability discovered in Apache Parquet

All versions of Apache Parquet up to and including 1.15.0 are affected by a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability whose CVSS score is 10 out…

Full article →
2025.04.01 — Hackers abuse MU plugins to inject malicious payloads to WordPress

According to Sucuri, hackers store malicious code in the MU-plugins (Must-Use Plugins) directory in WordPress and execute it while remaining undetected. The technique was first discovered…

Full article →