Colonial Pipeline – RansomeWare

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May 14, 2021 at 8:20 pm #68225
Ed P
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Following closely behind reports that the oil companies who own the pipeline had paid the ransomm comes a report in Jrebs Security that the Bitcoins have been seized by ‘someone’, and criminals sites and systems have also been taken down, There is speculation that this may have been a scam by the head honcho to run off with all the loot and pull up the ladder behind him!

Krebs link

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/darkside-ransomware-gang-quits-after-servers-bitcoin-stash-seized/
May 25, 2021 at 10:44 am #68238
keith with the teef
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Its been making the news that on the latest w10 update that M$ have introduced a ransomware defender. But apparently its been available for a long time if you knew how to enable it. Anyway its easy to enable now.

Also remember those text messages we was getting saying your parcel is ready to collect IF.

Well they have been caught and nabbed by the cops. Whorah.
May 26, 2021 at 4:53 pm #68244
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According to Krebs, installing the Russian language pack avoids many ransomware attacks.

I’m not sure that I would use this as my main line of defence!

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
May 27, 2021 at 5:24 pm #68247
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Ed P wrote:

Russian language pack avoids many ransomware attacks.

Gremlin remote assistance.
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