15 ransomware gangs ‘go dark’ to enjoy 'golden parachutes'

15 ransomware gangs, including Scattered Spider and Lapsus$, have announced that they are going dark, and say no more attacks will be carried out in their name. In a post on Breachforums, the ransomware-slingers say they have met their objectives – exposing insecure systems, not extortion – and “silence will now be our …

[harrys]

Hard decision but.....

After reading the china leak have decided to stop all work with hikvision products

Existing installs will support them until they find alternative maintainer

The unifi protect system albeit dearer has a better front end for sme end users and the recently released unvr a real alternative for a swap out with onvif support for a slow replacement of thecameras as they fail

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Hard decision but.....

You are well behind the herd on this topic @harrys

In August 2018 the U.S. government, as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019, banned the use of certain Chinese video surveillance technology, including that from Hikvision and Dahua, for federal government agencies and government-funded contracts. This was due to national security concerns. There have been multiple countries following that trend since.

Many of us saw the writing on the wall when support and drivers dried up.

Unifi is far cheaper than Hikvision and we swapped over last year.