* REvil hackers have taken down systems of up to 1 million companies worldwide
* Attack began Friday after Russia-linked group infected US tech firm Kaseya
* Knock-on effects have taken down IT systems of Swedish grocery stores, New Zealand schools and two Dutch tech firms - among many others
* Hackers are demanding $70m in Bitcoin as President Biden tells the FBI to investigate and warns of action against Russia if it is found to be responsible
The largest ransomware attack on record has hit the IT systems of up to 1million companies on virtually every continent as Russian-linked hackers demand $70million in cryptocurrency to fix it.
Swedish grocery stores, schools in New Zealand, and two major Dutch IT firms were among the victims of hacking group REvil which launched its attack on Friday after breaching the systems of US-based software firm Kaseya.
Kaseya says just a few dozen of its customers were directly affected by the attack, but knock-on effects have brought down firms in 17 countries including US and the UK - with one expert saying the attack is 'unprecedented' in its scale and sophistication.
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More News On The Recent Ransomware Attack
Scale, details of massive Kaseya ransomware attack emerge -- AP
Hackers demand $70 mln to end latest cyberattack -- Reuters
Kaseya cyberattack: Hackers want $70 million for decryption -- DW
Hackers demand $70 million to end biggest ransomware attack on record -- CBS/AP
No contact from Washington over latest ransomware attack, Kremlin says -- Reuters
White House working to ‘respond’ to massive ransomware attack -- NYPost
How REvil Ransomware Took Out Thousands of Business at Once -- Wired
7 comments:
Anyone doubt a Kill order has gone out on REvil?
I do not. Which country or how many countries is the answer.
If they are deemed protected or too hard to get to, other sacrifices will be made.
Or if proven guilty, sanction Russia internationally. Then Mr. xi, the world's most homely male, can cozy up his next door neighbor. Sounds like being between a hard spot and a slant eyed rock for Putin.
The better solution is for the US Congress to pass a law requiring critical businesses to have stronger IT controls over their networks. These Russian hackers are only able to penetrate the IT systems of the target companies because of the carelessness of the company employees and the weakness of company IT controls. Typically the penetration occurs when a hacker sends a email to a company with a malicious link which a retarded/careless company employee needs to click, then provide their user ID and password to the hacker, thereby allowing the hacker to penetrate the company network.
For example, a fake email will arrive purportedly from the company network saying: "Your account has been suspended for suspicious activity. Please input your USER ID and password again to verify/reactivate your account" or something like that, and the retarded employee then inputs their user ID and password, thereby giving the hackers access to the company network where they can implant malicious code which encrypts the company software/data. Then the hacker contacts the company saying, send us $1 million in bitcoin and we will send you the key to remove the encryption". But it all starts with poor IT controls and untrained/idiot employees which give access to the hackers in the first place.
Hold the company accountable for careless employees. Employees could be careless due to fatigue, stress overwork, family problems or drugs. Can a company be held accountable for drugs which they cannot fire a person for, because the state has legalized them?
Part of the solution has to be rounding up some of those hackers, enough for a percentage, so that the other hackers starter calculating their odds and getting cold feet. The rounded up need to be have the key to their cell thrown away or something messy done to them like getting broke on the wheel.
The risk benefit analysis has to be at least 50 50. if it is more than 50% for benefit for the hackers, then there will be more of it.
We demand the man on the moon tell these hackers to leave us alone!!
The reason they do this is because they're untraceable. Most probably ARE in Russia or former soviet states, but that doesn't mean governments with worse sigint funding than ours are able to just look over their shoulder and tell the hackers to knock it off.
If revil is not in Russia they can expect loads of fun on their doorstep. If in Russia maybe aterrorist bomb attack? who knows. I know the US gov is tired of these will take them out
No hacker or group would attack so many organisations without state backing for having a safe haven. I've hacked myself in my teens and know how easy it is to compromise systems. And I know how relatively easy it is to mask your networked attack. BUT I also, from experience, know how easy it is to forget something, perhaps when rushed. You need protocols and clinical precision and you must be able to repeat this countless times without flaw(automated systems don't do it all for you, humans have to be used still, even with narrow AI and established backdoors).. and everyone makes mistakes eventually, and you know the USA would kill you.. so you need a safe haven and only a handful of countries offer this and will deliver on it. Iran, north korea, Russia, China and perhaps 2-3 more nations in the southern hemisphere.
But...
Many of the backdoors used and attack patterns could likely be traced to the SolarWinds hack during the election.. people forget that at that time many CIA tools got leaked. And it looked like sm inside job.
Just saying. What's better than a safe haven? If you work for the country that's attacked...we shouldn't put it past the CIA to do this to their own companies/ people.. after all, they've started wars and caused the deaths of countless Americans, they pushed drugs - on record! - they killed political opponents - on record!- in their own country...
I'm thinking we are living through a phase of awakening, where we see just how deep the rot goes. My guess is that criminal entities willing to do anything (think of MS13 drug gangs) have infiltrated governments around the world, and it's been going on for decades.. assassinations are too attention drawing, so they don't kill the MLKs or JFKs of today.. they don't kill trump who warned us of the corruption in big pharma and the industrial complex (just like JFK did)... no.. they character assassinated him and everyone who voted for him
And who did the character assassination of half the country? CNN.. the same people who lied about the Wuhan virus and called you racist and sexist and who push drugs on you and who divide the country. THE SAME PEOPLE
HANG THEM
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