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Cyber
Is JBS cyberattack a dry run?
2021-06-03
[FoxBusinessNews] Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said last month that ransomware attacks cost victims a combined $350 million in 2020.

Ransomware attack cripples Martha's Vineyard ferry - as it's revealed China hacked NYC's MTA in April in failed bid to get control of its subway trains
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • New York City's transit system was hacked in April, it emerged on Wednesday

  • Hackers from China accessed the IT services via remote log-in systems

  • The MTA required 3,700 employees and contractors to change their passwords

  • Transit authority said that passengers were not at risk, and no data was stolen

  • It is the third time in recent years that foreign hackers have accessed the MTA

  • The report of the hack came a month after the Colonial Pipeline was taken out

  • On Tuesday US operations at the world's largest meat processer were stopped

  • On Wednesday the ferry between Massachusetts and islands was disrupted

  • Passengers traveling to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket faced delays

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Ransomware: 2021-06-02 Ransomware Attack Hits Ferry Service To Cape Cod, Nantucket And Martha's Vineyard
Ransomware: 2021-06-02 WhiteHouse says Russian group likely source of JBS cyberattack
Ransomware: 2021-05-18 Colonial Pipeline hackers DarkSide have lost control of money, will shut down
Posted by:Skidmark

#9  Agree with tw - these are first-team reps at worst but given the number of recent attempts and their apparent success levels, they're playing for real.
Posted by: Raj   2021-06-03 14:43  

#8  Not dry runs, it seems to me — an industry both government (China, North Korea) and private (Russia, Romania, among others). Bleeding the West as well as indulging pique (North Korea against Sony’s film about Lil Kim some years ago) and making a good deal of money for very little effort.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-06-03 14:18  

#7  FWIW, since 2009 the US has had a Joint Cyber Command with Uniformed Officers and civilians working initially as part of the NSA and since 2018 more independently (part of the Trump augment).

They take direction from the Sec of Def and the Joint Chiefs.

I am not sure how much freedom of operation they have. It would be nice if they were allowed to, for example, pay one Russian crime gang to wipe out another Russian crime gang (e.g., the one attacking JBS) but I have no idea what they are allowed to do and what their ROE is set up.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-06-03 13:32  

#6  Biden's response yesterday when asked what his response will be to this new cyberattack, "We are looking in to it". Translation, "I have no idea".
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2021-06-03 13:11  

#5  Planned Parenthood, "Green" Energy companies, etc. systems OK?

Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Heriberto Choluling1632   2021-06-03 13:11  

#4  ebbomoger/boskone:
The military's opinion is irrelevent. What matters is that Hunter and 'the big guy' are secret shareholders in Ligado.
Posted by: Zorba Johnson4505   2021-06-03 10:43  

#3  Biden wants to take management of the GPS System away from Trump's new Space Force and give it to a small company that just came out of bankruptcy called Ligado.

This is the Space Force's response:

(LINK)
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-06-03 10:14  

#2  Is JBS cyberattack a dry run?

Yes. Next question?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2021-06-03 09:20  

#1  My concerns are if our nuclear arsenals is disabled during a nuclear attack on the US and/or the satellite GPS system is disabled while thousands of driverless Tesla's are operating on the highways.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589   2021-06-03 09:17  

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