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The European Union will reportedly stage a far-reaching cyber security exercise intended to prepare for an attack on its distribution networks. (Bloomberg report)
Originally proposed by France, the drill is intended as a “stress test” to largely simulate a supply chain breach across Europe. The bloc will then coordinate diplomatic and public responses to the mock attacks, as well as to “spillover socio-economic effects in other member states.”
The hacks will be modeled on past cyber attacks, or those thought to be likely in the future, in order to be “as realistic as possible,” according to a document cited in the report.
The exercise is supposed start sometime in the coming days and will continue for six weeks.
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DDOsecrets reports: “250 gigabytes hacked from the Metropolitan D.C. police by the ransomware group known as Babuk. The data includes a 156.35 gigabyte “gang database” (released by the hackers as “all”) and two 64.19 gigabyte (released by the hackers as “HR”) and 29.03 gigabyte (released by the hackers as “part 2”) human resource datasets.
Distributed Denial of Secrets is immediately making the data available to journalists and researchers, and is in the process of reviewing it for portions that can be publicly released.
The hackers released the following screenshots (click to view enlarged versions) showing what they had access to and what is presumably contained in the data that is being released. The screenshots are offered to maintain a complete record and to offer a preliminary overview to journalists, researchers and curious citizens.
Distributed Denial of Secrets has located and converted 74,874 emails from the largely inaccessible .PST format to the universal .EML format, which are being made available to the public. The most recent collection of emails can be downloaded here. The emails come from the lead civilian analyst for the Department’s Intelligence Branch.
Some email conversions are also being provided directly to journalists and researchers.This includes 17,690 emails from the Director of Human Resources as well as 6,022 emails from then-intern Marvin “Ben” Haiman, now the Executive Director of the Professional Development Bureau and former Director for the Homeland Security Advisory Council for DHS.
The 98,586 emails are organized by archive, retain their original folder structure and are organized chronologically. Due to the way the emails were extracted and converted, they may not pass DKIM inspection. Forensic evaluation should only be performed on the original archives, as the conversions are provided only for convenience of journalists and other researchers.
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Colonial Pipeline, supplier of 45% of East Coast fuel, was paralyzed in February by DarkSide ransomware attack.
In response to the Colonial Pipeline event attributed to the ransomware group DarkSide, the Biden Administration has announced an all-of-government effort to mitigate potential energy supply disruptions. On top of temporary actions to relieve fuel shortages, agencies such as the FBI and CISA have released advisory documents to “help [critical infrastructure] owners and operators improve their entity’s functional resilience by reducing their vulnerability to ransomware.”
In addition, President Biden signed an Executive Order designed broadly to “improve the nation’s cybersecurity,” although experts are already questioning whether the anticipated measures could have prevented any of the recent serious cyber events such as SolarWinds or Colonial Pipeline.
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Glenn S. Gerstell SPEECH | April 9, 2018
By some accounts, Russian meddling in the US election system may have originated from the depths of a hot dog cart. It’s a success story, of sorts.
In the early 1990s, an enterprising hot dog vendor in Russia seized upon the entrepreneurial opportunities created by the collapse of the Soviet Union to start his own catering company. He eventually grew his business enough to win lucrative catering contracts with the Russian government. He and his restaurants threw opulent banquets for Kremlin officials, earning him the nickname “Putin’s Cook.” Yevgeny Prigozhin’s company even won a contract in 2011 to deliver school lunches across Moscow, but children wouldn’t eat the food, complaining that it smelled rotten. Bad publicity ensued. Prigozhin’s company responded not by upgrading the food, but by hiring people to flood the internet with postings praising the food and rejecting complaints. Presumably, they found it cheaper to use the internet to write fake reviews than to fund deluxe hot dogs for schoolchildren.
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