I was catching up on some audio and heard one very interesting story.
Now we have a Connecticut school who had its funds diverted by cybercriminals who were in the network for some time. While this is bad, the district is now going to paper checks to pay people unless its an employee.
Someone went masquerading as one of the employees. After doing this, someone was tricked on sending funds to the tune of $6 million. While the FBI jhas recovered a chunk of money and froze some, the district will be able to pay vendors and services “this time” will go uninterrupted.
This is not the first time the JRN has completely gone ape in regards to these useless pieces of shit who decide to use BEC or any other method to monitor communications and then steal the company’s money unless they just phish for details and steal it that way.
Back in July, I asked the question of when the hackers will leave our children alone and it seems like while this time they didn’t touch the children directly, they still went after a school district.
Criminals like you sorry asses already went after children with special needs which do include but cannot be limited to children with disabilities. This may include blindness, wheelchair bound or any other form of disability.
While the actors performed BEC and extorted money that way, they haven’t learned their lesson. When the fuck are you stupid fucks going to learn that the school districts, the children, and even their parents can’t help you on getting you money you don’t actually fucking deserve!
Its bad enough our fucking country can’t even get Coppa right (
so states are taking it in to their own hands. But now, you stupid fucking idiots think its okay to perform BEC and spy on email to do your bidding.
Business Email Compromise (BEC) (Trend Micro Glossary)
We already know that companies like TikTok can’t even follow the law
blog post but you at least try. But when you have no idea you’re being monitored by some threat actor or group, you have no idea what to do afterword.
What’s the answer now? Are you going to claim ignorance like you always do when something bad happens? What type of lessons do you think you and others can learn from this? How the hell did they even get in to your network to begin with? Oh yes, some attempt telling you that they need to do work on your network. Someone fell of it. It probably wasn’t even from your IT department.
Question. What is your cyber security posture now? Is it getting better and what have you learned?
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Hello Shaun,
Going through email I found your comment to this august blog post of mine. I work with a non-profit called MENVI which you can go to.
We bridge the gap between blind and music, whether it is braille music, audio or the like.
Yes, I’ve had enough of the actors going after our defenseless. What they do with us, we can fight, but our defenseless children have no idea what the hell is going on. Flat out aweful.
Wow jared, I hardly hear you overload like this.
I guess your are really passionate about this and this goes straight to the core and I actually agree with you.
Its bad enough things getting hacked its worse for security.
For those needing access its going to be potentially harder to get it.
With china, russia, terrorism, the environment and the groups against it potentially causing more harm along the way never mind the local racial drama happening here in new zealand, the infighting and stuff locally as well as everything else we don’t need people like these fucking bastards!
Just 1 of our current dramas could cause a lot of dammage and at least 1 of those dramas could potentially end our race as we know it so we don’t need any more.
I remember 2 instances where something similar to this came up.
I was talking to a islamic friend over on anothher forum, who basically said that because people that were not his religion or race, decided to use his religion for their own use has meant that everywhere he goes he is the terrorist because of what he is.
He has no sympathy for any of these that have for ever more probably fucked his race over never mind everything else.
Look at places the west went into for supplies etc and oil.
Look at what happened with 911.
And now we have left its worse again.
Next for my own experience, before opensource before real net and before the world ended I was a teenager fighting the system.
Drm is not something I care for and there was not the models existing now I can safely find my terf.
Back in the day me and a bunch of others fought the system.
We were pirates.
I cracked all my software from office to whatever I needed.
The prices were out of our reach yet society said we needed the software.
I would go all over the net to get what I wanted, music, software, etc.
Back then mind you the net was mostly a safe place before 2000 and then after 2005 things started to change.
Laws changed, opensource and freeware, and well threats.
A few of us really got virused over and things started to go wrong and for me it became not worth it.
I started to buy the cheap stuff, kkill the expensive and go opensource and free.
No one is a saint however I do have the odd skeleton in my closet I mean who doesn’t but by and large I am not looking to rebel anymore that was an age back now.
And while the world didn’t exactly conform to my ideal situation we do have subscription based services and the like.
And while I buy a few bits and bobs every so often I really can’t justify being a pirate when I use a service and becides its cheaper to subscribe and such than going to jail or fighting the system so I guess for me I achieved my goal and society changed so I guess I won what I wanted.
Sadly back then everyone including the hackers had a reason to fight.
Now days they are as bad as the big corperations and thats saying something because at the same time I say this I do use and appreciate the use and existance of those bastards so yeah the world is a weird place.
And within the world if you know your contacts you can still push the system a little without breaking the law.
Its a bit more work but if you know and can be quick it does work.
I just wish children were not the targets though.\
I mean when its the big corps I am not to concerned.
They spend time fighting eachother anyway its a warzone but when they target civilians including the defenceless, well I am still a rogue at heart but even I have my morals I think even back then I would.
I never took someone’s cloud account for subscription hacks and there were many that did.
And I’d need a reason tto hack that whatever it was.
Once that was done I would get rid of it.
And if there was a reason to go lagit on something I got I would.
I remember a topic about the old dectalk internal synth.
A Lot of people did pirate that on one of my forums.
I guess the company could have gone after all of us but they didn’t.
They kindly asked us why we were doing it.
We told them.
They told us it wasn’t selling but they had a contract but neither company cared about the price.
No they didn’t sell it but if you wanted it you contacted them, and brought it for what you wanted.
Granted it was a really low item but it did give me a pause.
What within reason instead of reporting and shooting down first the companies reached out to the hackers, asked them why, and what was behind it all then maybe come to an agreement it would work.
Sadly with the countries using cyberwar as a weapon that is no longer the case.
So maybe we put ourselves in our own coffin