Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware attack

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Police arrest a teenage boy in connection with the MGM Resorts ransomware *******

A teenage boy may be responsible for a ransomware ******* that

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in Las Vegas last year.

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in England confirmed that they arrested an unidentified 17-year-old on Thursday from the town of Walsall who allegedly shut down the resort and casino on the Las Vegas strip last year.

The teenager was arrested on suspicion of blackmail and violating the ***’s Computer Misuse Act. He was released on bail, according to a statement from the police department.

Police officials tracked the teenage suspect as part of a ****** investigation with the ***’s National ****** Agency and the FBI. The police department said they recovered evidence at the teenager’s address including “a number of digital devices which will undergo forensic examination.”

The statement also said the teenager was part of a “global cyber online ****** group” but did not specify which group. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group announced their responsibility for the

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. The ******* happened on Sep. 12, 2023 allegedly with a simple 10 minute phone call to a Help desk employee using information obtained from LinkedIn. The group has also claimed responsibility for a similar ransomware ******* on the beauty brand

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“All ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM Resorts was hop on LinkedIn, find an employee, then call the Help Desk,” the organization wrote in a post on X.

MGM Resorts’ system shutdown lasted for

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and created a massive outage across all of its casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. News later surfaced that other casinos like Caesars were also targeted by a different group but chose to pay the hackers tens of millions of dollars to prevent private company data from being released.

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