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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by zaroth on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:36PM (#27718926)
Because there are plenty of zero-days the NSA can deploy if you step out of your lane.

It’s as much a political game at this point as anything.

If anyone thinks they can hide behind cryptocurrency and hold truly strategic companies hostage they are deluding themselves.

They’ll either end up hacked beyond their wildest imagination or facing literal hellfires.

It’s brinkmanship. When the devs literally die, they think twice.

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by Animats on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:22PM (#27719109)
At some point, some nation-state will get annoyed enough to do something drastic. That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism.

Or even a company. Uber's security chief once became annoyed with an attack from Nigeria. They traced the attack to an Internet cafe and sent some "lawyers" to talk to the attacker.

Someone tried a ransomware attack on the Teamsters Union in 2019.[1] The FBI advised them to pay. The Teamsters didn't pay. There were no further attacks. The Teamsters declined to comment. (For those unfamiliar with American labor history, trying to push around the Teamsters Union usually ends badly for the pushers.)

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/558066-teamsters-re...

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by perl4ever on Saturday July 03, 2021 @10:52PM (#27726895)
>That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism.

Wait, what? Have you notified the Department of State?

https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/

Iran is still on there. I'm pretty sure some people have been "annoyed enough to do something drastic" for quite a while.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by coolspot on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:59AM (#27719884)
You make it sound like the Teamsters Union could do something bad to the attackers, so attackers gave up, but in reality Teamsters just rebuilt from archives, which was perhaps an economical decision:

“Ultimately, the union decided not to pay the ransom based on advice from its insurance company, and instead rebuilt its systems based on archived materials, NBC reported.”

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by texasbigdata on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:08AM (#27719496)
I wish you would have sourced the Uber Nigeria story instead.
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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by Animats on Saturday July 03, 2021 @01:10AM (#27719506)
It's in the book "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber".
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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by raverbashing on Saturday July 03, 2021 @05:06AM (#27720332)
Given that paying the ransom only outs yourself as a potential repeated target who pays, it was a wise decision

Source: https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252502519/Repeat-...

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by Haddaway on Saturday July 03, 2021 @02:59AM (#27719885)
Maybe a nation state is already behind it? https://cryptome.org/2021/06/Peck-Barb-1974.pdf

Was Edward Snowdon "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GtVt6quoD8&t=78s" or a psychologically manipulated patsy for the good/bad guys & girls?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-spectrum_dominance isnt just about hacking a few computers, its about getting inside the brain of each and every one of us/you like a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7DGMgfOb8.

Or is this line of thought just a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw&t=48s ?

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