Posted on 07/05/2021 8:23:38 AM PDT by dynachrome
Hackers suspected to be behind a mass extortion attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom, according to a posting on a dark web site.
The demand was posted on a blog typically used by the REvil cybercrime gang, a Russia-linked group that is counted among the cybercriminal world's most prolific extortionists.
The gang has an affiliate structure, occasionally making it difficult to determine who speaks on the hackers' behalf, but Allan Liska of cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said the message "almost certainly" came from REvil's core leadership.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Those hit included schools, small public-sector bodies, travel and leisure organizations, credit unions and accountants, said Ross McKerchar, chief information security officer at Sophos Group Plc (SOPH.L).”
The Cloud is responsible for this.
You don’t trust microsoft?/s
Exactly what “letters of marque and reprisal” are for.
Incorrect. The ransomware hackers are responsible for this.
Followed by the I.T. Professionals that are responsible to secure the servers, networks and desktops their organizations use.
Coincidence?
Why can’t these guys ever hit the IRS? They hold us ransom every single year!
The cloud is actually more secure than privately managed data centers. At least the ones from the top providers (AWS, Azure, Google).
Find them and eliminate all involved after interrogating them at length in a third neutral country and then execute them and place the video on the internet for all to see how any other extortionists or wannabe extortionist will be treated no matter nationality or age.
Why can’t our see-all hear-all govt agencies catch these people?
Problem is that they work nine to five and then go home. These hackers, if I understand correctly, are working in scattered groups around the world? They work 24/7.
Affected companies are going to have to loosen the pursestrings to get the protection they need. If somebody can write the software, somebody can hack it.
“Why can’t these guys ever hit the IRS? They hold us ransom every single year!”
And the IRS does it at gunpoint and threat of imprisonment not just withholding of data.
When you put your data in “the cloud” you no longer own or control it.
Doesn’t seem that smart to me.
Among other things, owners of “the cloud” can decide that your business is unworthy and turn your service off, like what Shopify did to gun dealers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/shopify-firearms-ban-1.4786060
How much is that in rubles?
The problem is that users insist on easy-to-use solutions and balk at security measures. They have the ears of the VP’s. The cure for ransomware is backups and no one wants to do them. The other solution is to only make browsers available via VM’s and users won’t tolerate that either.
That’s why I would never work in IT Security. If you are good, people think you are a PITA and if anyone allows themselves to get pwn3d, that is also your fault
Even hackers realize the dollar is near worthless.
There is going to be trouble if any of these were on Biden’s List
EXCELLENT idea!
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