Posted on 05/12/2021 8:57:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
"If during tomorrow they do not raise the price, we will release all the data," the group added, the posts read.
Chats appear to show the police department making a final offer of "$100,000 to prevent the release of stolen data."
"This is unacceptable from our side," the ransomware actor responds.
The Metropolitan Police Department did not respond to a CNN request for comment.
Ransomware groups do not typically post transcripts of the negotiations, according to Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the security firm Emsisoft, who said it's unclear why they chose to do so in this case.
"MPD is not the first department to have had its data exfiltrated, but the fact that the group is threatening to release details about informants to the gangs on which they're informing makes this incident the most serious by far," he said.
Last month, the attackers posted a ransom note claiming they had stolen more than 250 GB of data and threatened to publish the material if they were not paid. The ransomware group Babuk claimed credit for the attack, posting screenshots of the note that were flagged by cybersecurity researchers.
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Pay in Bitcoin, steal it back.
After all the breaches the last 10 years,you would think people with sensitive info would be more vigilant than the guy sitting at home at his desk .........
If our CIA was so concerned about hiring transvestites then maybe we could put up a defense against these attacks.
Idiots don’t know that the police are defunded in American cities.
Hmm, so this is a bunch of left wing insurrectionist attacking the infrastructure of the United Sates. I am sure the FBI is right on it. I wonder how much of the ransomware goes upstairs to the big guy.
Pay in United States cash. Meaning, worth 40% less next week after inflation runs away.
Or pay in George Floyd’s old suitcase of counterfeit currency. They may not notice.
You would think that every system that didn’t require remote access would be ‘air-gapped’ from the internet.
Newt Gingrich has the right plan....
Hunt these hackers down - and kill them.
And the best investigators on the planet with all the latest technology for surveillance can’t find ANY of these people, including the ones who shut down almost half the gasoline supply in America.
But they can find fake crimes by Republicans all the time.
I wondered where Craig Livingstone went....................
You can be sure there is a special locker of lead the men in blue have set aside for these sleaze balls.
If the line police officers are anything like their leadership there in D.C. then I have no sympathy for the D.C. Police Department. Let the hidden truths fly!
Watch your System Administrators. Don’t blindly assume they are honest. Everything else is fake, so are some of them.
Sounds like BLM to me.
Meanwhile, the CIA and FBI were either out recruiting tans, gays, lesbians, and mentally ill Latinas. If they weren’t doing that they were spying on Trump and his voters. Much too busy to actually protect the country.
Unfortunately, the FBI and Congress are fixated on Jan 6 so they don’t have time for this.
This will continue until special forces raid some of these places and fill the ransom demanders with lead in as loud and visible way as possible. If it’s coming from state actors then it’s war. We cannot allow anyone to shut down critical infrastructure or make terroristic threats with impunity, or worse, to profit from doing it.
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