A teenage boy could also be chargeable for final yr’s ransomware assault in Las Vegas. Britain confirmed it had arrested an unidentified 17-year-old man from the city of Walsall on Thursday after he allegedly shut down resorts and casinos on the Las Vegas Strip final yr.
{The teenager} was arrested on suspicion of blackmail and breaching the UK’s Laptop Misuse Act. He was launched on bail, in accordance with an announcement from the police division.
Police officers tracked the teenage suspect as a part of a joint investigation with Britain’s Nationwide Crime Company and the FBI. The police division mentioned they discovered proof on the teen’s tackle, together with “numerous digital gadgets that shall be topic to forensic examination.”
The assertion additionally mentioned {the teenager} was a part of a “international cybercriminal group” however didn’t specify which group. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group introduced the assault. The assault is alleged to have occurred on September 12, 2023, with the attackers utilizing data obtained from LinkedIn to put a 10-minute name to a assist desk worker. The group additionally claimed duty for the same ransomware assault in opposition to the wonder model.
“All of the ALPHV ransomware group did to compromise MGM Resorts was search for staff on LinkedIn after which name the assistance desk,” the group wrote in a put up on X.
MGM Resorts’ programs proceed to close down, inflicting large outages throughout all of its casinos on the Las Vegas Strip. It later emerged that different casinos, similar to Caesars, had been focused by one other group however selected to pay tens of tens of millions of {dollars} to hackers to forestall personal firm information from being leaked.
