2021-06-11
A look at the dangerous surge in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, the very real impact on patients, and the Russian threat actor behind it all. New from me and @_melaevans https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at the ruthless Eastern European ransomware gang Ryuk, which hit 235+ US hospitals since 2018 and collected an estimated $100M in ransom last year
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2021-05-18
This was just unsealed. In the last weeks of the Trump administration, William Barr's Justice Department tried to use a secret grand jury subpoena to unmask @NunesAlt, a Devin Nunes parody account. https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ...
New York Times
Court doc: Twitter fought a subpoena from DOJ under Trump to identify the person behind an account mocking Rep. Devin Nunes; source: DOJ under Biden withdrew
An unsealed court filing shows that the social media company fought the subpoena, which the Biden administration is said to have withdrawn.
2019-09-06
Kenneth Schuchman, 21, pleaded guilty yesterday to launching Satori and other internet-of-things botnets that collectively compromised ~1 million routers, IP cameras and Chinese DVRs. Here's the inside story on how he did it, and the FBI sting that got him https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
The Daily Beast
How a high-school dropout added a Huawei router zero-day to the Mirai botnet to create the formidable Satori botnet, which experts say infected 500K+ devices
Teenager behind notorious Satori botnet was an Xbox player who joined an online community that got their kicks from exploiting vulnerabilities …
2019-08-10
I sat on the new ZeroNet version of #8chan for a day and collected IP addresses. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
The Daily Beast
8chan users who are migrating to 08chan, an unofficial site hosted on ZeroNet, inadvertently lose anonymity because the P2P network exposes users' IP address
An unofficial new version of the hate-filled forum isn't as anonymous as its users might hope. — Refugees from the anonymous 8chan forum …