Posted by Guessedworker on Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:40 | #

And right on cue:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/07/special-report-ransomware-gangs-extorting-money-like-never/

The White House calls it a “rising national security threat”. The US Justice department has been instructed to treat it as seriously as terrorism. And President Joe Biden is to raise it with Vladimir Putin at a high-stake summit in Geneva next week.

Ransomware - cyber criminals forcing companies to pay millions for the return of stolen data - has reached heights of greed, audacity and reach unmatched in criminality since the heyday of Somali piracy.

Now, the gangs are posing such a threat to the infrastructure of modern civilisation, including the supply of food, energy and healthcare, that the director of the FBI has compared it to the 9/11 terror attacks ...

Posted by Thorn on Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:01 | #

Are we being lied to about the Colonial and JBS meatpacking “hacks”?

Here We Go Again: JBS “Paid” “Russian” “Hackers” $11 Million In Bitcoin To Resolve “Ransomware” Attack
BY TYLER DURDEN
THURSDAY, JUN 10, 2021 - 05:44 AM
There was a moment of sheer hilarity earlier today when, during a Congressional Hearing, the CEO of Colonial Pipeline Joseph Blount took the merely farcical episode of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack - when, as a reminder, a ragtag band of elite “Russian” hackers somehow managed to penetrate the company’s cyberdefenses but was so stupid it left most if not all of the $4.4 million bitcoins it demanded in ransom in an easily traceable address for the FBI to track down and magically confiscate (it is still unclear how the Feds got the private key to access the “hackers” digital wallet) in days if not hours - and elevated it to a level of sheer ridiculous absurdity when he told Congress that he didn’t consult the FBI before paying the ransom.

This, pardon the parlance of our times, is complete bullshit: either the CEO is lying or, worse, he is telling the truth and as some have speculated, he, the FBI and the “hackers” are all in on this so-called ransomware breach…

RTWT

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-we-go-again-jbs-paid-russian-hackers-11-million-bitcoin-resolve-ransomware-attack