BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS:
US government has recovered $2 million in ransom paid—via cryptocurrency—to the ransomware hackers who froze the Colonial Pipeline last month.
'Today we turned the tables' on the hackers, said deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco.
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
US government has recovered $2 million in ransom paid—via cryptocurrency—to the ransomware hackers who froze the Colonial Pipeline last month.
'Today we turned the tables' on the hackers, said deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco.
washingtonpost.com/business/2021/…
2/ Gotta say, seems likely there's a great movie-scene story to be unwound there — US law enforcement reverse-hackers...typing furiously away on keyboards!
Key the music & scrunched facial expressions that are the only known way to make typing urgent & suspenseful.
Key the music & scrunched facial expressions that are the only known way to make typing urgent & suspenseful.
3/ My own typing is often suspenseful, but only internally. Will there in fact be any more words? Will those words be riveting — at least more so than their typing?
…We've been led to believe that cryptocurrency makes ransomware unbeatable. Better than a suitcase of cash.
…We've been led to believe that cryptocurrency makes ransomware unbeatable. Better than a suitcase of cash.
4/ We're about to find out why that isn't true.
NYT reports federal authorities identified a Bitcoin wallet the ransom had been paid to — and a California judge granted a warrant to seize the assets in the wallet.
nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/…
NYT reports federal authorities identified a Bitcoin wallet the ransom had been paid to — and a California judge granted a warrant to seize the assets in the wallet.
nytimes.com/2021/06/07/us/…
5/ This is cool.
It won't end ransomware attacks. It will just cause cryptocurrency types to re-double their efforts to make the crypto untraceable and unfollowable.
But for now, score one for the good guys.
We're too casual and blasé about ransomware already.
It won't end ransomware attacks. It will just cause cryptocurrency types to re-double their efforts to make the crypto untraceable and unfollowable.
But for now, score one for the good guys.
We're too casual and blasé about ransomware already.
6/ If 40 armed men had simultaneously taken over the control facility & 7 pumping stations of the Colonial Pipline, shut it down, & demanded $4.4 million in ransom—law enforcement response & public response would have been overwhelming.
As it should have been. As it should be.
As it should have been. As it should be.
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