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This Week: On Sunday, the world's largest meat processor, JBS, underwent a cyberattack that shut down facilities across the nation. At present, the FBI is investigating as many as 100 different types of ransomware as U.S. corporations continue to suffer attacks. Morgan Wright, Chief Security Advi

Cyber blackmail targets kids; dealing with a multi-generational office; infrastructure negotiations continue; Nevada wants to leap ahead of Iowa in the Presidential nomination process; the military spies on its members. Click to hear hour two of Need To Know With Jeff Angelo for 6/1/2021.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Explains Why He Made Ransomware Hackers Rich 20 May 2021 The CEO of Colonial Pipeline, Joseph Blount, has attempted to explain why he chose to pay a $4.4 million ransom to hackers that took the pipeline’s system hostage. According to one expert, the Colonial Pipeline payoff will “help keep United States critical infrastructure providers in the crosshairs.” The  Wall Street Journalreports that the CEO of the Colonial Pipeline, Joseph Blount, recently explained why ...

A recent report from Wired reveals that a week after a ransomware attack shut down Colonial Pipeline halting fuel distribution on the East Coast, the company paid a reported $5 million dollar ransom to regain control of their systems and resume operations. The payoff may lead to future ransomware attacks, as one expert notes: "Unfortunately, it’ll help keep United States critical infrastructure providers in the crosshairs. If a sector proves to be profitable, they’ll keep on hitting it....

GasBuddy, an app that helps users to find the best availability and prices on fuel, has topped Apple's App Store this week amidst the gas shortage caused by the recent ransomware cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline. The app has proved so popular that its servers have experienced outages this week.

How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Crippled by economic sanctions and isolated from the rest of the world bar China, North Korea is increasingly relying on cybercrime to keep its economy running. Over recent years, the North Korea has evolved from a nuisance to its neighbor and rival South Korea and purveyor of ransomware and DDoS attacks to become the scourge of banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. Threat intel experts polled by The Daily Swig said that the tactics and tradecraft of a...

12 May 2021 Morgan Wright, the Chief Security Advisor at SentinelOne and former Senior Advisor of the U.S. State Department and the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, appeared on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow on Wednesday to discuss the recent rise in ransomware attacks. According to Wright, “if you remove the ability to monetize this, these gangs are out of business because they’re only in it for one reason — to make money.” Morgan Wright, the Chief Security...

The anonymity is likely key to the Pentagons plan Cybersecurity experts say the mystery shrouding Global Resource Systems is not surprising. The company has no real history, but the people behind the company undoubtedly have government connections, Morgan Wright, the chief security officer of SentinelOne, told Insider. The name on the companys incorporation documents, Raymond Saulino, matches the name of a managing member of the cybersecurity firm Packet Forensics, a company that has worked wit...

4 possible explanations for why a mysterious Florida company is managing a huge chunk of Pentagon internet addresses, according to cybersecurity experts gkay@businessinsider.com (Grace Kay) Moments before the inauguration, a Florida company began managing nearly 175 million Pentagon IP addresses. The Department of Defense said it is using the addresses to "identify vulnerabilities" in DoD space. Here are four possible explanations for the Pentagons decision, according to cyberse...

It is largely unknown what the Pentagon is planning to do with the IP addresses, as well as why the government chose the unknown startup, Global Resource Systems LLC. Cybersecurity experts told Insider the Pentagon could be looking to do anything from lure in hackers and build up online government defenses to surveillance of US citizens and reconnaissance on foreign countries. When contacted for comment, a government spokesperson pointed Insider to a Friday statement from the Pentagons chief of...