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Ciaran Martin

@ciaranmartinoxf
30 posts
2024-07-20
@ruskin147 @BBCr4today This screenshot is doing the rounds on this platform Rory - apparently from a Crowdstrike user platform which is paywalled. Lots of credible experts seeing this as the source of the problems I cannot verify this but it seems credible [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A profile of CrowdStrike, founded in 2011 and used by 300 companies in the Fortune 500; Gartner: CrowdStrike has ~15% of the global security software market

The little-known company is very popular in Corporate America, contributing to the severity of the global IT outage

@ruskin147 @BBCr4today This screenshot is doing the rounds on this platform Rory - apparently from a Crowdstrike user platform which is paywalled. Lots of credible experts seeing this as the source of the problems I cannot verify this but it seems credible [image]
2024-07-20 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

or CrowdStrike Microsoft : HELPFUL LINKS  —  Get notified of outages that impact you  —  Building reliable applications on Azure The Record : IT teams scramble to recover from Crow...

2024-07-19
@ruskin147 @BBCr4today This screenshot is doing the rounds on this platform Rory - apparently from a Crowdstrike user platform which is paywalled. Lots of credible experts seeing this as the source of the problems I cannot verify this but it seems credible [image]
2024-07-19 View on X
The Verge

BSODs hit thousands of Windows PCs due to “a defect” in an update from CrowdStrike, taking banks, airlines, and more businesses offline; Microsoft is aware

Thousands of Windows machines are experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issue at boot today, impacting banks …

2024-05-07
There's nothing unusual or untoward about the government not saying who they think is behind the breach at this stage. Under data protection law the government has a duty to tell those affected asap. That's what they're doing They don't have to, & shouldn't rush attribution 2/
2024-05-07 View on X
Sky News

Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed

MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.

On here at about 1hr35 in @BBCr4today trying to explain what we know so far about the MoD data breach. A few thoughts 1/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
2024-05-07 View on X
Sky News

Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed

MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.

2024-02-21
“one of the most consequential disruptions ever undertaken against one of the giants of ransomware, and certainly by far the biggest ever led by British police” Good piece by @gordoncorera @BBCNews on Lockbit; nice to be quoted in it https://www.bbc.com/...
2024-02-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Cybersecurity experts say that global law enforcement agencies dealt Russia-linked LockBit a major blow, but history shows that ransomware gangs regroup quickly

- Disruption of LockBit praised as major blow against gang  — History has shown that hackers regroup quickly, experts say

2024-02-20
Guess we're about to find out if #lockbit have good backups and an effective business continuity & recovery plan 😂
2024-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Law enforcement agencies from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit group and seize 11K domains used for ransomware

- Law enforcement from 11 countries joined in cyber operation  — Extortion sites used by scammers seized to thwart attacks

Lots more to say later but for now: We all - particularly vulnerable business owners & organisational leaders - owe @NCA_UK & partners our unqualified thanks & congrats for leading one of the most impressive & impactful counter-cyber crime operations ever #lockbittakedown [image]
2024-02-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …

It's true that law enforcement ops against cyber criminals are whack-a-mole. but this one against Lockbit is kind of like machine gunning or bombing a whole mole hill rather than whacking an individual mole to be fair
2024-02-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …

Guess we're about to find out if #lockbit have good backups and an effective business continuity & recovery plan 😂
2024-02-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …

2023-09-20
Have just been on @TimesRadio about the HMG campaign to stop @Meta rolling out e2ee. Key arguments: 1. The Home Sec already has the legal power to stop Meta rolling out e2ee (a technical capability notice under the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act). 1/6 https://www.bbc.com/...
2023-09-20 View on X
TechCrunch

The UK's parliament passes the Online Safety Bill, in the works since 2019, paving the way for Royal Assent and the bill becoming law in the coming days

Controversial UK legislation that brings in a new regime of content moderation rules for online platforms and services …

2023-09-10
I'm quoted in this article in @POLITICOEurope about the UK Online Safety Bill, Clause 122 and the implications for national security systems. A few people have asked me for more detail about this aspect of the debate so here goes 1/8 https://www.politico.eu/...
2023-09-10 View on X
Politico

How privacy campaigners and tech executives, like Signal president Meredith Whittaker, teamed up to challenge the UK's Online Safety Bill encryption crackdown

LONDON — Deep in the recesses of Britain's Hogwarts-like houses of parliament, a Facebook lobbyist-turned-lord is trying to foment a rebellion.

2023-07-10
An important point from @DanNeidle: despite all the hype, major theft of actual cash from big financial institutions via cyber attack is not unknown (Bank of Bangladesh, Tesco Bank etc) but it's surprisingly rare https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-10 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: Revolut's US system let criminals steal $20M+ over several months in 2022 before Revolut shut the loophole, equivalent to ~66% of its 2021 net profit

During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages.

2023-06-06
Very good overview of the broader context to the large scale data thefts claimed by the Russian cyber criminal group Clop While here in the UK attention is focussed on Zellis's high profile payroll customers like the BBC, BA & Boots, this op looks much bigger & broader than that https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-06 View on X
BleepingComputer

Microsoft attributes recent attacks on Progress' MOVEit Transfer tool to the Clop ransomware gang; incident responders: the gang can take weeks to issue demands

Very good overview of the broader context to the large scale data thefts claimed by the Russian cyber criminal group Clop While here in the UK attention is focussed on Zellis's high profile payroll customers like the BBC, BA & Boots, this op looks much bigger & broader than that https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-06 View on X
Bloomberg

British Airways, the BBC, and others warn staff that their data may have been stolen in Progress' MOVEit tool hack; thousands of companies could be vulnerable

William Turton / Bloomberg :

2023-02-02
Significant, welcome intervention by ⁦@CISAJen⁩ in ⁦@ForeignAffairs⁩ Huge among to digest & it'll need several readings, but headline is welcome emphasis on what over here we'd call secure by default: making tech safer when it's designed/built https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
2023-02-02 View on X
Foreign Affairs

CISA Director Jen Easterly and Executive Assistant Director Eric Goldstein say incentives for developing and selling tech should not eclipse customer safety

> - Secure products not just security products - Security built in not bolted on - Raise everyone's baseline by reducing the [total] cost of control @CISAJen https://www.foreignaff...

2023-01-27
This is a very cool operation against #ransomware. Kudos to ⁦@FBI⁩ & the 🇳🇱& 🇩🇪authorities. One striking point: only 20% of US victims the USG tracked notified US authorities...😬. Sensible analysis here too from ⁦@uuallan⁩ (as always) https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-01-27 View on X
TechCrunch

The FBI, US DOJ, Secret Service, Europol, and others seize ransomware gang Hive's site and decryption keys; the FBI had access to Hive's network since July 2022

using lawful means, we hacked the hackers.” Tonya Riley / @tonyajoriley : Since infiltrating the network the FBI in July it was able to help 1,300 victims with decryption keys, pre...

2022-07-19
.@CISAgov to open a London office: fantastic news for transatlantic cyber security @CISAJen https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-19 View on X
The Record

The CISA announces its first international Attaché Office, which it plans to open in London later in July 2022, for collaboration between CISA and UK officials

Martin Matishak / The Record :

2022-03-07
If verified, this 👇is more like the sort of operation that would have been expected against Ukraine from Russia's cyber forces to accompany an invasion. That said, the actual impact of this on Ukraine seems hard to gauge https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-07 View on X
@thegrugq

[Thread] the Russia/Ukraine cyberwar reportedly opened with a Russian cyberattack on Viasat's satellite ISP KA-SAT, but Ukraine dominates the information space

per a BSI letter cited below. https://twitter.com/... @hatr : Spiegel now also reporting Viasat was likely hacked, in german gov assessment. Lines up with our reporting that router...

Very good thread from @thegrugq on the noise in cyberspace around the war 👇 “None of this [cyber] activity, beyond the opening salvo, looks like traditional cyberwar. It is criminals, and Twitter, and disinformation, and no critical national infrastructure” https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-07 View on X
@thegrugq

[Thread] the Russia/Ukraine cyberwar reportedly opened with a Russian cyberattack on Viasat's satellite ISP KA-SAT, but Ukraine dominates the information space

per a BSI letter cited below. https://twitter.com/... @hatr : Spiegel now also reporting Viasat was likely hacked, in german gov assessment. Lines up with our reporting that router...