Yep. The companies I've worked with either turned a blind eye or just buried any bad news concerning data breaches.
I wonder if cyber breaches qualify for whistleblower protection and those huge rewards?
I could hit a lick or two and retire.
There’s too many bad cyber actors on the Dark Web with potential to make a profit. (The worst kept secret is that the FBI and CIA will hire these same hackers to work as cyber security specialists IF they manage to catch them).
Ransomware scrambles data that
can only be decoded with a software key after the victim pays off the criminal perpetrators. An epidemic of ransomware attacks has gotten so bad that Biden administration officials recently deemed them a national security threat. Hospitals, schools, police departments and state and local governments are regularly hit. Ransomware attacks are difficult to stop in part because they’re usually launched by criminal syndicates that enjoy safe harbor abroad.
“The attack by DarkSide, exposed the remarkable vulnerability of key American infrastructure.”
F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack
The F.B.I., clearly concerned that the ransomware effort could spread, issued an emergency alert to electric utilities, gas suppliers and other pipeline operators to be on the lookout for code like the kind that locked up Colonial Pipelines, a private firm that controls the major pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from the Texas Gulf Coast to New York Harbor.
The pipeline remained offline for a fourth day on Monday as a pre-emptive measure to keep the malware that infected the company’s computer networks from spreading to the control systems that run the pipeline. So far, the
effects on gasoline and other energy supplies seem minimal, and Colonial said it hoped to have the pipeline running again by the end of this week.
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“This first happened at least 2 weeks ago - they were forced to make this a public matter 4 days ago. And still scrambling to figure out the issues with the encryption”
- is how this should be read, you know, if news articles were honest.
