White House Invites Dozens of Nations for Ransomware Summit (apnews.com) 21
The White House is bringing together three dozen nations, the European Union and a slew of private-sector companies for a two-day summit starting Monday that looks at how best to combat ransomware attacks. From a report: The second International Counter Ransomware Summit will focus on priorities such as ensuring systems are more resilient to better withstand attacks and disrupt bad actors planning such assaults. A senior Biden administration official cited recent attacks such as one that targeted the Los Angeles school district last month to underscore the urgency of the issue and the summit. The official previewed the event on the condition of anonymity. Among the administration officials planning to participate in the event are FBI Director Christopher Wray, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo and Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. President Joe Biden is not expected to attend.
what the article doesn't say (Score:5, Funny)
They were invited by email, and the email's content was "URGENT - your president credentials have been leaked", with the content going like: "please confirm your credentials by clicking this link [seemslegit.com] and entering your ID and password to generate a new one!"
Unfortunately it seems that at least 63 countries fell for it, and they are thus invited.
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And here I was hoping that law enforcement had figured out which people or groups pretending to be legitimate anti-malware researchers were actually behind the ransomware attacks, and had invited them to the summit as a honeypot.
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LOL! I wonder if they invited Saudi Arabia. Different kind of ransomware I guess... /s
Re: what the article doesn't say (Score:3)
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You must have typed that all out, unless it's a copy paste with some words filled in..
Why?....
But will the NSA attend? (Score:5, Insightful)
But will a representative from the NSA attend? With their secret list of vulnerabilities they planted in Windows, Cisco gear &c, they are probably more important to include than anybody...
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NSA probably implanted some plausibly deniable exploitable bugs along the line, but all that does is save them the time having to look for one instead.
There is no shortage of bonafide exploitable bugs and non NSA are more likely to find those than the implanted ones.
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IF they didn't invite the Chinese and Russians, then this meeting is a waste of time.
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IF they didn't invite the Chinese and Russians, then this meeting is a waste of time.
Originally, I had the same thought...but in practice, it's better that they're not present.
Both countries are well aware of the problem, but it's a problem for us, not them. From their perspective, ransomware brings piles of money into their economies and generally harms people and companies too small to retaliate. Besides, lots of those payments are made by insurance companies, and if the companies are completely out of luck, they're going to have the same level of concern as we'd have about a Chinese or R
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more likely you weren't targeted, because the main vector for ransomware is social engineering or user deceit. by the time your scanner gets to run it is already too late.
a ransomware agent is basically a form of trojan. trojans are just regular programs so practically undetectable until they are known to misbehave, then recognized by their signature, which is easily fooled by writing ever different versions of the same. they can be prevented from e.g. making unwanted requests to the outside, and this strat
First question on the agenda (Score:2)
Send ransomware back into the depths of obscurity by outlawing cryptocurrency, y/n?