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Because there are plenty of zero-days the NSA can deploy if you step out of your lane. It’s as much a political game at this point as anything. If anyone thin
by zaroth 5y ago
Because there are plenty of zero-days the NSA can deploy if you step out of your lane.
It’s as much a political game at this point as anything.
If anyone thinks they can hide behind cryptocurrency and hold truly strategic companies hostage they are deluding themselves.
They’ll either end up hacked beyond their wildest imagination or facing literal hellfires.
It’s brinkmanship. When the devs literally die, they think twice.
- Animats 5y agoAt some point, some nation-state will get annoyed enough to do something drastic. That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism. Or even a company. Uber's security chief once became annoyed with an attack from Nigeria. They traced the attack to an Internet cafe and sent some "lawyers" to talk to the attacker. Someone tried a ransomware attack on the Teamsters Union in 2019.[1] The FBI advised them to pay. The Teamsters didn't pay. There were no further attacks. The Teamsters declined to comment. (For those unfamiliar with American labor history, trying to push around the Teamsters Union usually ends badly for the pushers.) [1] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/558066-teamsters-refused-to-pay-a-ransomware-attack-in-2019 https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/558066-teamsters-re...
- coolspot 5y agoYou make it sound like the Teamsters Union could do something bad to the attackers, so attackers gave up, but in reality Teamsters just rebuilt from archives, which was perhaps an economical decision: “Ultimately, the union decided not to pay the ransom based on advice from its insurance company, and instead rebuilt its systems based on archived materials, NBC reported.”
- Haddaway 5y agoMaybe a nation state is already behind it? https://cryptome.org/2021/06/Peck-Barb-1974.pdf https://cryptome.org/2021/06/Peck-Barb-1974.pdf Was Edward Snowdon "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtVt6quoD8&t=78s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtVt6quoD8&t=78s" or a psychologically manipulated patsy for the good/bad guys & girls? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance isnt just about hacking a few computers, its about getting inside the brain of each and every one of us/you like a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8. Or is this line of thought just a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw&t=48s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw&t=48s ?
- texasbigdata 5y agoI wish you would have sourced the Uber Nigeria story instead.
- Animats 5y agoIt's in the book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber".
- raverbashing 5y agoGiven that paying the ransom only outs yourself as a potential repeated target who pays, it was a wise decision Source: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252502519/Repeat-ransomware-attacks-hit-80-of-victims-who-paid-ransoms https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252502519/Repeat-...
- perl4ever 5y ago>That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism. Wait, what? Have you notified the Department of State? https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/ https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/ Iran is still on there. I'm pretty sure some people have been "annoyed enough to do something drastic" for quite a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...