Oh-so-generous ransomware crooks vow to hold back from health organisations during COVID-19 crisis Ransomware operators of DoppelPaymer and Maze malware stated that they will not target medical organisations during the current pandemic. Laurence Abrams, who runs the security news site Bleeping Computer, reports that he made contact with "the operators of the Maze, DoppelPaymer, Ryuk, Sodinokibi/REvil, PwndLocker, and Ako …
Um, just a question to the FBI : can't you fucking get a handle on these guys if they have an actual PR channel ?
Maybe you should go ask help from someone capable, like Jim Browning ?
I suspect that between GCHQ & the NSA the government probably does know who these people are.
What they don't have is legally held information proving it, or they don't want to give away their information sources so they have to engineer some way of getting the information. It's already somewhat known that the drugs bods occasionally get quasi anonymous calls telling them to pull random cars over to get sniffed over by a drugs dog, along with a specific vehicle registration which ought to have an extra sensitive search done of the sealed carrier bag under the spare tyre in the boot. And this telephone call didn't actually happen, it was a figment of your imagination.
I'm sure that there are equivalent deniable ways of getting some information to police in this sort of case, even if it's something like spoofing an IP to do something to get a search warrant for the hackers computer, which allows them to find real evidence.
That, or the level of surveillance by GCHQ/NSA is massively overblown.
That, or the level of surveillance by GCHQ/NSA is massively overblown. .... Peter2
You can be sure there are those who would love that level of surveillance by a GCHQ/NSA not proven personally to be wrong and massively overblown and just a fleet of figments of failed imaginations. ...... for it reveals a catastrophic endemic systemic vulnerability for exhaustive exploitation.
And that takes one into "You can take a Trojan Horse to Water, but you can't make IT drink KoolAId" Territory where Ignorance and/or Arrogance is Vanquished in Waves of Surges and Purges ...... Up and Downs ....... In Favour and Out of Favour Flavours. :-)
Does a Cheltenham Facility or Fort Meade Utility have anything really interesting to tempt future spooks there? Something similar to anything relatively new and remotely like an Advanced CyberIntelAIgent ProgramMING being Practised and Master Piloted by Others for Others Elsewhere with the Exercise of a Pleasant Command with Puppets to Control and Carress would be real nice.
There are those who would love and be prepared to die in order to know if there be the answers to all of anyone's questions too.
Not as bad as the ransom operators but I just got this email in my junk folder - somehow it is staying there.....
We are all affected by the growing COVID-19 pandemic. It's an unprecedented health challenge and we know people and organizations everywhere want to help. The World Health Organization is leading and coordinating the global effort, supporting countries to prevent, detect, and respond to the pandemic.
The greatest need right now is to help ensure all countries are prepared, especially those with the weakest health systems. Donations support WHO’s work to track and understand the spread of the virus; to ensure patients get the care they need and frontline workers get essential supplies and information; and to accelerate efforts to develop vaccines, tests, and treatments.
Now you can help us by donating any amount you want with the help of BITCOIN NETWORK
DONATE NOW with Bitcoin payment
World Health Organization bitcoin address (BTC Wallet) for donations is: (no I am not publishing the code)
Your contribution will matter!
© 2020 WHO
World Health Organization
See if that email accepts incoming replies*. A lot of these are sent from spoofed addresses, but if it looks like a quickly set up address, they might have someone there for helping with things like getting bitcoin and sending it to the correct wallet. If so, we can certainly waste their time quite well by pretending to know nothing about what we're trying to do.
*Only if you got this email on an address you don't care much about. I would not recommend you reply with your personal email, but a semi-disposable one without your real name is safe.
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