![]() ![]() Ransomware attacks, fueled by COVID-19 pandemic turbulence, have become a major money earner for cybercriminals, with the number of attacks rising in 2020. These file-encrypting attacks have continued largely unabated this year, too. In the last few months alone we’ve witnessed the attack on Colonial Pipeline that forced the company to shut down its systems - and the gasoline supply - to much of the eastern seaboard, the hack on meat supplier JBS that abruptly halted its slaughterhouse operations around the world, and just this month a supply chain attack on IT vendor Kaseya that saw hundreds of downstream victims locked out of their systems. However, while ransomware attacks continue to make headlines, it’s nearly impossible to understand their full impact, nor is it known whether taking certain decisions - such as paying the cybercriminals’ ransom demands - make a difference. JACK CABLE RANSOMWHERE 32M PAGETECHCRUNCH FULL Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos Group who previously worked for the U.S. The tweets were labelled as having been sent using the Twitter Web app. ![]() ![]() Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is looking to solve that problem with the launch of a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website, Ransomwhere. KREBS STAMOS GROUP RANSOMWHERE 32M PAGETECHCRUNCH FULL One of the phrases involved in the scam was tweeted more than 3,000 times in the space of four hours, with tweets being sent from IP addresses linked to many different countries. The already-burgeoning database, which doesn’t include any personal or victim-identifying information, is available as a free download for the cybersecurity community and law enforcement officials, which Cable hopes will help give some much-needed public transparency about the current state of the problem. JACK CABLE RANSOMWHERE 32M PAGETECHCRUNCH FULL. ![]()
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