Deciding to pay ransom - the cases of JBS and Colonial Pipeline. Gangland branding. Constituent management system hit. Notes on the FBI’s partial recovery of DarkSide’s ransom take.
JBS discloses that it paid REvil roughly eleven-million dollars in ransom. REvil not only had a good haul, but the gang made a few points about its brand, too. Colonial Pipeline explains, and defends,...
10 Jun 202124min
Chinese cyberespionage in Russia? US Executive Order rescinds TikTok, WeChat bans. Operation Trojan Shield. Privateering. NATO’s Article 5 in cyberspace. Patch Tuesday notes.
SentinelOne attributes the cyberespionage campaign against Russia’s FSB to Chinese services. President Biden replaces his predecessor’s bans on TikTok and WeChat with a process of engagement, security...
9 Jun 202123min
FBI claws back a lot of the ransom DarkSide collected. An international dragnet uses an encrypted chat app to pull in more than 800 suspects. Navistar discloses a cyber incident.
The FBI seized a large portion of the funds DarkSide obtained from its extortion of Colonial Pipeline. An international sweep stings more than eight-hundred suspected criminals who were caught while u...
8 Jun 202127min
Dark Side’s way into Colonial Pipeline networks may have been an old VPN. Summit agenda. DDoS hits German banks. Anonymous angry with Elon Musk? Alleged Trickbot coder arraigned.
Dark Side seems to have attacked Colonial Pipeline through an old VPN account. Washington and Moscow prepare for this month’s summit, with cyber on the agenda. DDoS affects German banks. Anonymous may...
7 Jun 202124min
Dave Farrow: The guy that enabled the business. [Security leadership] [Career Notes]
VP of Information Security at Barracuda Dave Farrow shares how a teenage surfer fell in love with software development and made his way in the cybersecurity field. Dave chose to study electrical engin...
6 Jun 20216min
Bad building blocks: a new and unusual phishing campaign. [Research Saturday]
Guest Karl Sigler of Trustwave's SpiderLabs joins Dave Bittner to talk about their research: "Hidden Phishing at Free JavaScript Site". The research describes an interesting phishing campaign SpiderLa...
5 Jun 202119min
Advice on ransomware from the US National Security Council. JBS announces its recovery from the REvil attack. Cyber diplomacy (and maybe retaliation). Ransomware-themed phishbait.
JBS recovers from its REvil ransomware attack, and this and other apparent instances of privateering will figure among the agenda at the upcoming US-Russia summit. (The US is said to be mulling retali...
4 Jun 202124min
FBI fingers REvil as the gang behind the JBS ransomware. Privateering may come up at the US-Russian summit. Ransomware at regional transportation operations. Cyberespionage in Southeast Asia.
Evil, your name is REvil, except when it’s Sodinokibi. That’s what the Bureau says about the JBS ransomware attack, anyway. The US is expected to make strong objections to Russian cyber privateering a...
3 Jun 202124min
