Infiltrating ransomware gangs on the dark web

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Published 2024-04-14
Jon DiMaggio, a former intelligence community analyst and current cybersecurity strategist, has used fake personas to communicate with ransomware gangs on the dark web, finding out who's behind them and how they work.

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All Comments (21)
  • @scootter37
    Working for a company that provides cyber security, I can tell you no company is too small or too large from cyber attacks and you're at risk if you haven't implemented a cyber security solution. It takes years to build your business and seconds to lose it. Standard "off the shelf anti virus" does little to protect from attacks.
  • I really hope this gets addressed because America values it's privacy
  • I've also come across sketchy operatives, veterans with a history of violence (also targeting me & others). They had access in 2013/14 to alter social media posts of the WA state Sheriff's onboard vehicle computer's database. Meaning, someone had access to alter the local law enforcement's database - making it look like I posted something I didn't. I showed my phone text/post to the local Sheriff - it was terrifying that a criminal had access to do that. Surprisingly to me, the Sheriff wasn't surprised, wasn't shocked. It's far worse than you think and much of it is domestic w/some foreign connections.
  • @RobertArlensky
    Companies should stick to Ad Hoc systems. Get rid of wireless and go back to wires.
  • @gw2315
    Here’s a the solution corporate America stop outsourcing tech positions over shores!
  • @b3twiise853
    Inflation so hard 60 min videos become 6 minutes
  • @charlessmith263
    I got slammed by a ransomware attack 2 times on my desktop computer recently by Scattered Spider! But I knew what to do when I got ransomwared 2 times - shut down the computer before the ransomware-malware finished its payload and permanently ENCRYPT my files!!! I knew what to do!!!! My computer was intact! And I never paid bitcoin ransom to Scattered Spider!!! Kept my money!!!
  • @richjoyal
    I was hit once by ransomware, luckily i had backup.
  • @4115steve
    we should cut off all fiber optic cable that goes to russia
  • @SandyRiverBlue
    There are a very discreet number of folks who have the skills to pull off these kind of attacks. In the 1980s we had ways of dealing with bad actors that had it in them to harm large groups of people. I wouldn't be against bringing some of that Cold warfare back. If it was discovered that hacking infrastructure was bad for your health, I imagine that a lot of this stuff would stop. Probably not going to happen though. ( ;
  • @David-ki2dl
    Time to go back to paper and pencil, The writings were never hacked, just sold,
  • @Fedgery007
    Scared to blame China as well for this?!