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Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:12 am to RogerTheShrubber
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My guess is this outfit is a group the FBI and CIA are using for their own purposes.
What leads you to think that?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:12 am to 0x15E
There has been no less than a dozen threads on this in the last 12 hours.
WE KNOW
WE KNOW
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:15 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Im not saying they should have, but that's like me pulling a $5 bill out of my wallet
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A million dollars isn't exactly a lot of money these days. Virtucon alone makes over 9 billion dollars a year!
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:16 am to ell_13
According to this morning’s WSJ article after the ransom was paid, the tool used to unlock the hack didn’t work. So the random was paid for nothing.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:16 am to 0x15E
without bitcoin/crypto, this probably wouldn't have happened
This post was edited on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:16 am to dewster
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I thought we had the FBI to handle shite like this?
They can't immediately do anything. The FBI doesn't have some undo tool/backups, all they can do is eventually track its origin. A few local police depts were hacked, the FBI told them to just pay for the time being.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am to 0x15E
quote:and this is exactly why this will continue to happen
Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:17 am to 0x15E
Most big companies are insured for being hacked. Whoever insured them paid it.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:18 am to 0x15E
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Colonial Pipeline gave in: $5,000,000 paid to ransomware hackers
Didn't they do this last week? I read that the encryption the hackers gave them was taking too long so they had to move forward with restoring their backups anyway.
Just a total waste of $5M.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:19 am to 0x15E
Biden gas signaled to Russia and China that it is open season to hack infrastructure in the USA>
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:21 am to dewster
FBI is too busy looking for fake vaccine cards. They ain’t got time for ransomware attacks.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:21 am to RogerTheShrubber
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My guess is this outfit is a group the FBI and CIA are using for their own purposes.
Ah, bullshite. I was told this is a Russian group. The Chinese are our friends. The government is simply protecting our rights and staying out of our individual lives. Where have you been, man. This is America.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:24 am to LSUZombie
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And making it far more lucrative for hackers now knowing these companies will pay up.
Which is why I didn't comment on the merits of the payment, only that is not a material amount of money
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:26 am to Ajo Devil
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Not only that, but they paid them in Bitcoin which makes it that much harder to investigate/trace.
Isn't bitcoin completely traceable? Now they know the wallet ID of the hackers and can monitor the wallet and monitor any transactions to and from that wallet and any connected wallets.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:27 am to dewster
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I thought we had the FBI to handle shite like this?
Handle what?
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:29 am to KamaCausey_LSU
Probably actually paid in Monero as it is untraceable.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:29 am to Old Money
The NHS will offer some support but not much. The FBI isn’t there to fix anything. They’re just there to find the people who did it.
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:29 am to ArmydawgMD
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How did they guarantee the hackers weren't pulling a Nigerian prince scheme and would fix the code after payment?
You're right dude! I bet they didn't even think about that!
Posted on 5/14/21 at 9:31 am to S
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They’re more interested in getting bamboozled by tPear
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