Access denied, high abuse?Sad news on school bullying
https://discord.gg/rossmanngroup https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/12-year-old-nyc-boy-who-died-after-bullying-reports-had-no-trauma-me/3048120/invidious.snopyta.org
gizmodo.com
Yup, Interesting Engineering reported that too. Which begs the questions: if their initial explanation was that they had to shut it down because they refused to pay the ransom, why then did they actually shut it down if they did in fact pay the ransom and why should it take a week or more to turn back online if they didn’t have to shut it down in the first place...?There are some reports that say the Colonial pipeline ransomware hackers got five million dollars worth of Bitcoin.
Colonial Pipeline Reportedly Paid Hackers $5 Million for Decryption Key That Wasn't Very Useful
About a week ago, Colonial Pipeline paid the ransomware group DarkSide approximately $5 million in exchange for a data decryption key that didn’t really
Next week: Everything is hacked, including our lawnmowers. Stay away from those.
spectrum.ieee.org
They shut the computers down as soon as they found they'd been compromised, even before trying to contact the hackers. I'd expect. I'd heard they'd paid off the hackers on the radio this afternoon, but wasn't sure whether that was to get a decryption key, or to prevent the exfiltrated data from being published. Even after recovering your locked data, you still need to redesign your network to stop this happening again, so it's not surprising to me they need some downtime to complete that.
That press release is a little odd, brushless DC electric motors are a well trodden technology. Your computer probably contains at least a couple of them. Doing it without a rare earth element magnet is new, and presumably if they're aiming these at cars they want them to perform better at higher loads, which is where currently rare-earth based brushless motors fall down, so why aren't they saying that in their press release?
