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- GRIZZLY STEPPE – Russian Malicious Cyber Activity (US-CERT)
- Critiques of the DHS/FBI’s GRIZZLY STEPPE Report (Robert M. Lee)
- US Govt Data Shows Russia Used Outdated Ukrainian PHP Malware (Wordfence)
- Grizzly Steppe IP and Hash Analysis (JerryGamblin)
- How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers for Its Cyberwar (NYT)
- Some notes on IoCs (ErrataSec)
- (Melrose, MA) Melrose Police Pay 1 Bitcoin to Get Rid of Ransomware
- (Tewksbury, MA) Police Pay Off Ransomware Operators, Again (Dark Reading)
- (Horry County School District in South Carolina) US School Agrees to Pay $8,500 to Get Rid of Ransomware (Softpedia)
- (Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center) Hospital paid 17K ransom to hackers of its computer network (AP)
- (Methodist Hospital in Henderson, KY) Hospital Declares ‘Internal State of Emergency’ After Ransomware Infection (Krebs on Security)
- (Cloquet School District in Duluth, MN) Cloquet schools suffer 'ransomware' attack (Duluth News Tribune)
- (Plainfield, NJ) These hackers can hold a town hostage. And they want ransom — paid in bitcoin (WaPo)
- (Germany) German hospitals being held ransom by cyber attackers (IT Governance)
- (Washington D.C.) Washington's MedStar Health shuts down computers after virus (Reuters)
- (Calgary, Alberta) Bitcoin ransom demanded by hackers of Calgary wine store (CBC)
- (Calgary, Alberta) University of Calgary Pays $20K Following Ransomware Attack (Threatpost)
- NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee to Recover Files Worth $2 Million (Softpedia)
- (Madison County, Indiana) Ransomware attack forces Madison County, Indiana to pay up (StateScoop)
- (Allegheny County, PA) Pennsylvania State Prosecutor's Office Paid Ransom In 'Avalanche' Ransomware Attack (Dark Reading)
- 70 Percent of Enterprise Ransomware Victims Paid Up, Data Shows (On the Wire)
- (Los Angeles, CA) Los Angeles college pays hacker ($28,000) student data compromised (KSBY)
- Half of Ransomware Victims Pay Criminals' Demands to Recover Data (Threatpost)
- (Cockrell Hill, TX) Police Department Loses Years Worth of Evidence in Ransomware Incident (bleepingcomputer.com)
- (Austria) Hotel ransomed by hackers as guests locked in rooms (The Local)
- (Washington D.C.) Hackers hit D.C. police closed-circuit camera network, city officials disclose (WaPo)
- Fact sheet: https://gist.github.com/rain-1/989428fa5504f378b993ee6efbc0b168
- WANNACRY RSA keys in PEM format: https://pastebin.com/SNBdGbJh
- WannaCry/Wcry Ransomware: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/5916115b0d3cde73f7669850/
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NHS services in England and Scotland hit by global cyber-attack (The Guardian)
- Discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129
- Telefonica Tells Employees to Shut Down Computers Amid Massive Ransomware Outbreak (BleepingComputer)
- Leaked NSA Exploit Spreading Ransomware Worldwide (Threatpost)
- An NSA-derived ransomware worm is shutting down computers worldwide (Ars Technica)
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Hackers Hit Dozens of Countries Exploiting Stolen N.S.A. Tool (NYT)
- Discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326439
- Mass cyberattack strikes computer systems worldwide Live updates (RT)
- Malware, described in leaked NSA documents, cripples computers worldwide (Washington Post)
- 'My heart surgery was cancelled' (BBC)
tl;dr: complexity, dependence an reliance on third-party systems and consulting
- US Homeland Security’s $6B Firewall Has More Than a Few Frightening Blind Spots (Defense One)
- Top five U.S. defense contractors bungle commercial cybersecurity market opportunity (CSO Online)
- Navy Wants to Unplug From Some Networks to Stay Ahead of Cyberattacks (Military.com)
- U.S. Power Producers Seeking to Stem Grid Cybersecurity Threats (Bloomberg)
- U.S. to Blame Iran for Cyber Attack on Small NY Dam: Sources (NYT)
- Hackers Modify Water Treatment Parameters by Accident (Softpedia)
- Top US Undergraduate Computer Science Programs Skip Cybersecurity Classes (DarkReading)
- U.S. government worse than all major industries on cyber security: report (Reuters)
- CSAIL report: Giving government special access to data poses major security risks
- Apple's open letter
- Who Sets the Rules of the Privacy and Security Game? by Jennifer Granick
- Android phones are easier for police to crack than iPhones (CNN)
- "A very good summary of the technical issues in Apple v. FBI" from @SteveBellovin https://twitter.com/SteveBellovin/status/703414902594125824
- San Bernardino Shooter's iCloud Password Changed While iPhone was in Government Possession (ABC News)
- FBI says it might be able to break into seized iPhone, judge cancels order to aid decryption (ArsTechnica)
- Congress's New Encryption Bill Just Leaked, And It's As Bad As Experts Imagined (Vice)
- The Senate's Draft Encryption Bill Is 'Ludicrous, Dangerous, Technically Illiterate' (Wired)
- Ron Wyden vows to filibuster anti-cryptography bill (Boing Bong)
tl;dr: malware, social engineering
- "EPIC" fail—how OPM hackers tapped the mother lode of espionage data (ArsTechnica)
- FBI, DHS Share Lessons Learned from OPM Hack (OpenDNS)
- After OPM Hack, Security-Clearance Requests Will Run Through the Pentagon (Defense One)
tl;dr: denial of service, malware
- First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation (ArsTechnica)
- Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack (Wired)
- The Malware That Led to the Ukrainian Blackout (Motherboard)
- DHS ICS-CERT Alert (IR-ALERT-H-16-056-01) Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
- Lessons From The Ukraine Electric Grid Hack (Dark Reading)
tl;dr: social engineering, malware