FBI Re-sends Alert About Supply Chain Attacks For the Third Time in Three Months (zdnet.com) 26
The FBI has issued an alert on Monday about state-sponsored hackers using the Kwampirs malware to attack supply chain companies and other industry sectors as part of a global hacking campaign. From a report: This marks the third alert about this particular group sent this year, in as many months, after the FBI sent alerts on January 6 and February 5. This time around, the FBI highlighted that some of the group's targets are organizations in the healthcare industry, currently grappling with the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Besides sending out a PIN (Private Industry Notification), the FBI has also published two Flash alerts, one containing YARA rules to identify the group's Kwampirs malware on infected networks, and the second containing a technical report, complete with IOCs (indicators of compromise).
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The GRU has as its strategy undermining faith in western society and institutions; this goes back to the days of trying to prevent its neighbors from joining NATO.
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The GRU is not allowed do much globally after many, many mistakes attempting to spy going back many, many decades.
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Okay...? "It's not the Russians, it's the North Koreans."
Does that work for you?
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It's the bad guys from that alien invasion movie from the 90s that had Jeff Goldblum infect them and they are sending us the virus back.
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Why would it be the Russians? They are reliant on the supply chain economy as much as anyone else. If you want to see what happens when the supply chain stops, look at Cuba, they got blockaded decades ago and they're still driving around in 1950's cars.
There are a ton of people trying to make a buck of this COVID-19 thing, pretty much every single company is sending out notices how scary things are and their technology can help you with the crisis in the hopes of getting some business.
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Why would it be the Russians? They are reliant on the supply chain economy as much as anyone else. If you want to see what happens when the supply chain stops, look at Cuba, they got blockaded decades ago and they're still driving around in 1950's cars.
They also have lower infant mortality and higher life expectancies than the USA, so cars are not everything.
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Ah, come on, starting a war under a false pretext and with fabricated "evidence" is a far worse crime against humanity, but somehow the US bunch that did it in 2003 is still free and rich.
So lighten up and shove that righteous pomposity up you know where.
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Do you disagree that anyone engaging in this behavior during this period deserves a large cruise missile up their ass?
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Yes. I am for due process with proper evidence and a chance for defense.
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Sure. Put the evidence in front of an independent court like the ICC in the Hague, prove your case and we can talk about the punishment once you have a verdict.
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You can only recall 2003? Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria saw plenty acts of war under Obama unauthorized by congress.
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Your internal politics doesn't really matter here, I merely chose a particularly disgusting example of the contempt your country has for the rest of the world.
But let me ask you a question, if you're so upset about those you personally dislike, why aren't you actively working to put all these criminal act perpetrators in front of the proper judicial authority - the International Criminal Court?
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The ICC doesn't have judicial authority. Maybe in "your" country it does, but even in "my" country, as a neighbor and visitor to The Hague during the Rwanda and Yugoslavian trials it didn't have much of an authority.
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The ICC doesn't have judicial authority.
Not in the US, because your elected representatives will not grant it. Why? See above, they reserve the right to engage in crimes against humanity on your behalf.
Since, unlike Nazi Germany, your country isn't run by a totalitarian government, that makes you just as guilty as that bunch of all those that you listed.
So, either get them to answer, or just shut the fuck up.
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The NSA has been listening to every bit of global communication for 10+ years, allegedly to protect the USA and her allies from evil terrorists. An attack against a hospital would be a prime example of such an act of terror. Where are these three letter agencies now? What are they doing with their secret stash of evil exploits? Why are the data centers these attackers work from still operational and connected to the global internet? These all-knowing three letter agencies surely know, where these attacks ar
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Why can't the FBI actually DO anything about this? Find the state where the "state-sponsored hackers" live and bomb the fucking hell out of it
The FBI is only authorized to shoot and burn suspects domestically. Maybe you are thinking of the Philadelphia police department?
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The UK can act globally with MI6 and the SAS.
They should all be protecting the USA from any cyber problems. 4 other nations and their experts. Call in decades of alliances.
Most nations with any US base, camp, fort, port, what was a cooperative security location would be ready to support the USA globally.
Ask NATO nations. Call up the BND? France? Ask for Guillaume.
Some other nations might have cyber experts? Or the teams t