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Gareth Corfield

@gazthejourno
24 posts
2024-02-20
Rather big news from the cyber world: Lockbit, the Russian ransomware gang that tried to extort £66m from Royal Mail, has had its website seized by law enforcement including the National Crime Agency.
2024-02-20 View on X
Bloomberg

Law enforcement agencies from 11 countries, including the FBI and UK National Crime Agency, disrupt the LockBit group and seize 11K domains used for ransomware

- Law enforcement from 11 countries joined in cyber operation  — Extortion sites used by scammers seized to thwart attacks

Rather big news from the cyber world: Lockbit, the Russian ransomware gang that tried to extort £66m from Royal Mail, has had its website seized by law enforcement including the National Crime Agency.
2024-02-20 View on X
BleepingComputer

Law enforcement agencies arrest two LockBit operators in Poland and Ukraine, issue three arrest warrants, offer a decryption tool, and seize 200+ crypto wallets

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool …

2023-12-22
Lapsus$ hacker Arion Kurtaj has been sentenced to a secure hospital for life after stealing and leaking online Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay footage as well as various other crimes targeting business logins company Okta.
2023-12-22 View on X
Bloomberg

A UK judge sentences Arion Kurtaj, the 18-year-old who leaked GTA VI code and hacked Nvidia, to a secure hospital until a mental health tribunal lets him leave

Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg :

2023-12-07
Facebook Messenger's rollout of end-to-end encryption has provoked an angry backlash. James Babbage, late NCF chief and now a director at the National Crime Agency, says Meta's “alternative safety measures” won't “produce sufficient evidence for a search warrant”.
2023-12-07 View on X
The Verge

Meta rolls out end-to-end encryption to Messenger by default for one-on-one chats and calls, fulfilling a yearslong promise; E2EE for group chats remains opt-in

Meta is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for one-on-one chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally fulfilling …

2023-09-20
As Joe says, this was first reported in 2014. Does highlight how Beijing is now taking hold of Western governments' cyber TTPs (attribution) and turning them against their creators. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-09-20 View on X
Nikkei Asia

In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009

Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying  —  China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.

2023-08-23
On the one hand, this seems overblown and at direct odds with govt-backed statements about better securing the UK online. On the other, there are lobbyists spreading disinformation in the safe knowledge nobody in UK public life has the subject knowledge to challenge them.
2023-08-23 View on X
Just Security

A look at potential issues in the UK's plans to revise its Investigatory Powers Act, including blocking end-to-end encryption and slowing down security updates

Ioannis Kouvakas / Just Security : X: @sailingbikeruk , @rodolfor , @mer__edith , @misanthropegirl , @alecmuffett , @jjaron , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jsrailton , @jamesrbuk , a...

2023-02-07
Royal Mail hackers Lockbit, the Russia-linked ransomware gang, have threatened to dump stolen data on their Tor blog on Thursday. RM is downplaying what they've probably stolen. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-07 View on X
BleepingComputer

The LockBit ransomware gang claims responsibility for an attack on the UK's Royal Mail that halted international shipping, contradicting an earlier statement

The LockBit ransomware operation has claimed the cyberattack on UK's leading mail delivery service Royal Mail that forced the company …

2023-01-14
Royal Mail was hacked by Russian-linked ransomware gang Lockbit - latest news is all here. If you know more about this incident, my DMs are open and I'm contactable on Signal (just ask for the number) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
2023-01-14 View on X
Telegraph

Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries

2023-01-13
Royal Mail was hacked by Russian-linked ransomware gang Lockbit - latest news is all here. If you know more about this incident, my DMs are open and I'm contactable on Signal (just ask for the number) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
2023-01-13 View on X
Telegraph

Sources: a Russia-linked LockBit ransomware gang infected the UK's Royal Mail customs label printers, forcing the postal service to stop overseas deliveries

Lockbit's ransomware scrambled software on machines used to send international post  —  A Russia-linked ransomware gang was behind …

2022-11-17
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX was worse than Enron, says Enron's former liquidator. This is one of the greatest court documents I've ever read., especially if you share John Ray's bone-dry sense of humour. https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.co m/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-17 View on X
CoinDesk

Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III, who oversaw Enron, condemns SBF's “unprecedented” management, describing a “complete failure of corporate controls”

The former FTX CEO's unconventional style is under the spotlight as bankruptcy professionals pore over the exchange's collapse.

2022-09-23
The outcome will be a market study carried out in conjunction with the CMA. Not sure this will lead to anything meaningful, but when Ofcom picks up its phone we'll know more.
2022-09-23 View on X
CNBC

UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over the next year due to competition concerns

Ryan Browne / CNBC :

Ofcom is opening an investigation into cloud hyperscalers (basically MS, AWS and Google Cloud). The TV regulator, which is gearing up to regulate the internet, says these three companies account for 81% of UK cloud spending.
2022-09-23 View on X
CNBC

UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over the next year due to competition concerns

Ryan Browne / CNBC :

2022-09-22
The outcome will be a market study carried out in conjunction with the CMA. Not sure this will lead to anything meaningful, but when Ofcom picks up its phone we'll know more.
2022-09-22 View on X
CNBC

UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over the next year due to competition concerns

- Ofcom, the U.K. media watchdog, is set to launch a study examining the role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the cloud services market.

Ofcom is opening an investigation into cloud hyperscalers (basically MS, AWS and Google Cloud). The TV regulator, which is gearing up to regulate the internet, says these three companies account for 81% of UK cloud spending.
2022-09-22 View on X
CNBC

UK media regulator Ofcom plans to investigate the cloud computing, personal messaging, and smart device markets over the next year due to competition concerns

- Ofcom, the U.K. media watchdog, is set to launch a study examining the role of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in the cloud services market.

2022-09-20
The law means I can't tweet the name, but there is a definite Twitter whispering campaign attempting to link one of the British teens alleged to be part of Lapsus$ with the most recent Uber and Rockstar / GTA6 hacks.
2022-09-20 View on X
Uber Newsroom

Responding to last week's hack, Uber says a contractor's account was breached by Lapsus$-linked hackers and exposed HackerOne bug reports were remediated

Uber Newsroom :

2022-05-31
“China is good at SEO” https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-31 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Report: Google, Bing, and YouTube regularly return Chinese state media content in the top US results on China's human-rights record and the origins of COVID-19

Karen Hao / Wall Street Journal : Source: Brookings .

2022-04-20
“We believe the large uptick in in-the-wild 0-days in 2021 is due to increased detection and disclosure” I think that's a win. Can't defend against what you don't know about. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-20 View on X
Project Zero

Google's Project Zero: 58 in-the-wild 0-days were detected and shared in 2021, more than double the previous record, as the industry improves at finding 0-days

A Year in Review of 0-days Used In-the-Wild in 2021  —  This is our third annual year in review of 0-days exploited in-the-wild [2020, 2019].

2022-03-24
On Okta, the @NCSC told me me last night it had “not seen any evidence of impact in the UK.” Meanwhile the company has since admitted 2.5% of its customers had their data “viewed or acted upon”. That's ~400 firms. https://www.okta.com/...
2022-03-24 View on X
Bloomberg

Security researchers say a 16-year-old from England is the Lapsus$ group's mastermind; source: researchers identified seven unique accounts tied to Lapsus$

Cybersecurity researchers investigating a string of hacks against technology companies, including Microsoft Corp. and Nvidia Corp. …

On Okta, the @NCSC told me me last night it had “not seen any evidence of impact in the UK.” Meanwhile the company has since admitted 2.5% of its customers had their data “viewed or acted upon”. That's ~400 firms. https://www.okta.com/...
2022-03-24 View on X
Wired

Okta confirms an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsus$, as customers struggle to grasp their exposure

i.e. their data may have been viewed or acted upon. “We have identified those customers and already reached out directly by email.” https://www.okta.com/... Kevin Beaumont / @gossi...

2022-03-23
On Okta, the @NCSC told me me last night it had “not seen any evidence of impact in the UK.” Meanwhile the company has since admitted 2.5% of its customers had their data “viewed or acted upon”. That's ~400 firms. https://www.okta.com/...
2022-03-23 View on X
Wired

Okta confirms an attacker accessed an engineer's laptop in January consistent with posted screenshots by Lapsus$, as customers struggle to grasp their exposure

Authentication firm Okta's statements on the Lapsus$ breach fails to answer key questions.  —  The digital extortion group Lapsus$ threw …