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Ransomware Group That Stole Apple's MacBook Pro Schematics Taken Offline in Multi-Country Operation
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The schematic was in Quanta, the one who actually build a MacBook duh.
But then again if you easily pay, especially in the realm of $50 M, that’s an invitation to be hacked again soon.
The ones who paid are mostly the ones whose operations are disrupted. That is not the case here.
Apple wasn’t hacked. An intermediary company was.
Procecution I'm all for ... into oblivion is overkill of resources and might. Just need to prosecute heavily enough to caused consistent fear, regret and send a serious message for other would-be criminals to think twice hard and NOT act. So ... yeah into oblivion I guess.
I have ZERO tolerance for Ransomware; I'm not a victim of it (yet), just a CISSP.
Oblivion for these criminals is not overkill no matter what is stolen.
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Yes, but they were interrupted again and will have to regroup again, further risking getting caught and prosecuted.
I'm just pining for what *should* happen to them and their ilk.
They're weren't ungrouped to begin with. All they did was lose a website, which is expendable. It does somewhat increase their risk of exposing info when they make a new one, and I get why they'd want to take down the sites as they appear, but it's not gonna do much.
I’m sure a leak of such schematics would destroy Apples edge in polishing cloth market.
Wasn’t REvil purported to be responsible in the two-week attack on Bandwidth-dot-com VoIP and some of their downstream providers?
Karma!
In the mean time, a new ransom operation called REvil 2.0 was released the same day.
Unless they jail the perpetrators, incapacitating computers is like playing whack-a-mole...
In the mean time, a new ransom operation called REvil 2.0 was released the same day.
Unless they jail the perpetrators, incapacitating computers is like playing whack-a-mole...
I do not believe that logic applies. Most of those attacks are just automated. If security vulnerabilites do not get fixed, you will be hacked again. The automatic attack won't care if you payed or not. Sure, companies like Apple could also see targeted attacks, but the fallout like german train displays going down shows that there are many automated attacks unaware of the target.
That is the issue with states having stakes in spy ware. They have an interest to keep security vulns unpatched. So maybe there is a discussion to be had about that.