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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
“exfiltrated”
New word for me. I’ll not bother to look it up.
Ransomware is a nasty invader but what about an invader that subtly changes data. Things start malfunctioning and you don’t even know why.
The world awaits a foolproof shield against the invasions. Perhaps all possible invasions can’t be stopped but perhaps a system could be separated into isolated pieces so an invasion didn’t take down everything.
Perhaps it’s just a matter of going back toward lower tech.
I don’t get why our cyberwarfare guys can’t track these clowns and sent some black ops guys in to slit their throats in the middle of the night.
Yeah, kinda like in the State Dept........or perhaps, info IS air gapped, but to say so would be admitting that there are evil elements in the ranks.
Hey! I didn’t write that!
My FReeper acct. must have been hacked!
Zero-Day - knuckleheads would carry it across the gap.
Turn the ransom back onto them! No questions asked! Well worth to pay millions to hunt these scum down.
How do we know this was not the NSAs doing under the Residents cop hating orders?
Snowdon showed that the NSA etc could make anything look like anything!
Biden and Kerrey have experience in delivering pallet loads of cash. Notice the Jen Sockpuppet saying the White House had no comment on private companies paying ransoms to cyber criminals. At least set the bar that cyber extortion is a crime and direct the FBI to make cyber ransoms about as profitable as kidnap ransoms became under J Edgar Hoover.
Oh the wonders of our digital world never cease.
That’s okay. Then you have someone to blame and jail.
Just shows how much the cops value the lives of their confidential informants.
I was a victim of ramsomware and It cost me a lot of money.
I was in an auto accident 100% not my fault, I ended up having to get an atty, but the medical facility that had my treatment records was attacked and decided not to pay the ransom.
Ins company said so sorry, no proof no pay.
I found out that the state medical board recommends that records be kept, but there is no penalty if they are not
Start with the Chief.
Works for me.
You watch how fast they try to morph that to include us.
We’re all terrorists ya know.
10%
Paging Mossad! Paging Mossad!
Please pick up the white courtesy phone in the lobby.
Remember the Clinton server?
Sorry that went over your head.
Yeah, my sense of humor has been severely impaired. No way I would have picked up on that...
Sorry.
When are right wing groups going to adopt these tactics to battle the Stalinists?
I didn’t realize how long ago that was.
Guess I’m just one of Rush’s KOOKs
lol
Keeper of Odd Knowledge is a wonderful thing to be!
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