Serious. Think beyond produce rotting. What could you smuggle into or out of a country if governments could not verify cargo?
Australia locks down ports after ‘nationally significant’ cyberattack
Australia says it is responding to an ongoing cyberattack targeting major ports, prompting operator DP World to temporarily restrict access to the network on Saturday.
The operator shut down four ports at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Fremantle after detecting a cybersecurity incident late on Friday night. DP World is responsible for 40 per cent of Australia’s maritime freight.
… DP World Australia said it had “restricted landside access to our Australian port operations” during the ongoing investigation.
… The restrictions imposed by DP World meant ships were unable to unload freight and freight was also barred from leaving the port site.
… Mr Goldie said the interruption was likely to continue "for a number of days", impacting the movement of goods into and out of the country.
Hackers seem to react faster than government (or educational) bureaucracies.
https://www.databreaches.net/times-up-singularitymd-sets-up-to-sell-data-from-jeffco-public-schools/
Time’s up: SingularityMD sets up to sell data from Jeffco Public Schools
It looks like “SingularityMD,” the hacker(s) of Clark County School District in Nevada and Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado, are looking to start selling the data they exfiltrated.
In an introductory post today on Breach Forums, they write:
We are SingularityMD.
We specialize in low sophistication corporate network infiltration.
We are behind the following hacks
We have access to a lot of organizational data and would like a place to sell it.
We plan to sell the Jeffco data breach dataset and some parts of CCSD which has not previously been leaked.
We have data for additional organizations we will sell over time.
Attempting to sell data on the popular forum is somewhat of a game-changer, as even if they sell data to just one buyer, there is no way to know how many others will buy the data from the original purchaser. The buyer might keep it privately or choose to re-sell it to any number of buyers. Or if there’s no buyer, SingularityMD might just leak the data (give it away freely on the forum).
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/10/lockbit_leaks_boeing_files/
Impatient LockBit says it's leaked 50GB of stolen Boeing files after ransom fails to land
The LockBit crew is claiming to have leaked all of the data it stole from Boeing late last month, after the passenger jet giant apparently refused to pay the ransom demand.
The gang dumped the files online early Friday morning. This latest leak includes about 50GB of data in the form of compressed archives and backup files for various systems.
Did we see an overwhelming volume of disinformation during the last election cycle? This article suggest that we will this time. Who benefits?
How the GOP muzzled the quiet coalition that fought foreign propaganda
The FBI put a pause on briefings with tech companies due to an ongoing lawsuit, adding to a broader breakdown in a system meant to guard against influence operations and to ensure election integrity.
A once-robust alliance of federal agencies, tech companies, election officials and researchers that worked together to thwart foreign propaganda and disinformation has fragmented after years of sustained Republican attacks.
The GOP offensive started during the 2020 election as public critiques and has since escalated into lawsuits, governmental inquiries and public relations campaigns that have succeeded in stopping almost all coordination between the government and social media platforms.
The most recent setback came when the FBI put an indefinite hold on most briefings to social media companies about Russian, Iranian and Chinese influence campaigns. Employees at two U.S. tech companies who used to receive regular briefings from the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force told NBC News that it has been months since the bureau reached out.
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