We Know that REvil was taken down, but was it a good one? You decide

As I look to try and post over the weekend, we can’t look over an article talking about REvil. We talked about people who were arrested in Russia, but could it be the end in Russia for cybercrime?

According to the first paragraph, it says:

The Russian government’s Jan. 14 takedown of suspects associated with the notorious REvil ransomware group was an example of increasing cooperation between the U.S. and Russian governments on cybersecurity matters, a top Russian official said Friday, but the Russian government is still waiting for U.S. reciprocation on its own cyber requests.

We know through hearing some talk that Russia and other countries are having troubles, which I hope we don’t get involved in to be honest. What the Russian government wants in exchange for these arrests, is a clear definition on what DDOS is and this link is the link to the statement talking about DDOS.

More importantly, we know that Russia has metalled in elections, and if I were a betting man, we’re afraid that Russia will compromise us through a DDOS attack in a future election we may not be prepared for.

I’d love to see a day where we can hold elections over the Internet, just like shopping and other activities are held today. We’d have an election site we’d have to authenticate with and the appropriate ballot information is given to us for submission. I’m not sure how this would work with countries like Russia wanting to metal in everything, but that’s what I hope for.

The full article we’re talking about today is titled Top Russian official cites REvil arrests as sign of cooperation, says Moscow is awaiting reciprocation which comes to us from Cyberscoop.

I found the entire article interesting, but I don’t want to be talking about Russia much when China and other countries are doing the same as Russia is.

In no way am I saying the U.S. isn’t doing the same, but the Internet was not built for this type of problem we’re dealing with. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens as everything settles down.