Cyber-ketju: verkkovakoilu,kännyköiden ja wlanien seuranta, hakkerointi, virukset, DoS etc

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Iranian hackers have carried out some of the most disruptive acts of digital sabotage of the last decade, wiping entire computer networks in waves of cyberattacks across the Middle East and occasionally even the US. But now one of Iran's most active hacker groups appears to have shifted focus. Rather than just standard IT networks, they're targeting the physical control systems used in electric utilities, manufacturing, and oil refineries.

At the CyberwarCon conference in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, Microsoft security researcher Ned Moran plans to present new findings from the company's threat intelligence group that show a shift in the activity of the Iranian hacker group APT33, also known by the names Holmium, Refined Kitten, or Elfin. Microsoft has watched the group carry out so-called password-spraying attacks over the past year that try just a few common passwords across user accounts at tens of thousands of organizations. That's generally considered a crude and indiscriminate form of hacking. But over the last two months, Microsoft says APT33 has significantly narrowed its password spraying to around 2,000 organizations per month, while increasing the number of accounts targeted at each of those organizations almost tenfold on average.

Microsoft ranked those targets by the number of accounts hackers tried to crack; Moran says about half of the top 25 were manufacturers, suppliers, or maintainers of industrial control system equipment. In total, Microsoft says it has seen APT33 target dozens of those industrial equipment and software firms since mid-October.

https://arstechnica.com/information...crew-is-targeting-industrial-control-systems/

 

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Pää, tee tuttavuutta pöydän kanssa:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1203366972018311169

 

[Pihatonttu]

Jo muutaman vuoden jatkunut kuvio. Oikeastaan jatkunut sen ajan kun olen netissä käsitellyt hybridiaihepiiriä:

Aina välillä jotkut tietsikan toiminnot hidastuvat ehkä noin sadasosaan tai nopeimmillaan kymmenesosaan normaalista. Sitä kestää jonkin aikaa. Sitten ilmiö häviää.

(Helvetin vaikea kirjoittaa tätä kun kirjaimet saattavat välillä tulla yli sekunnin viiveellä.)

Aina välillä jotkin nettiyhteyteen liittyvät toiminnot joko katoavat, muuttuvat niin hitaiksi, että sama kuin katoaisivat tai hidastuvat vähemmän hitaiksi mutta kuitenkin ehkä noin sadasosaan normaalista. Sitten tämä ilmiö häviää itsestään.

Aina välillä kännykkä rupeaa kuluttamaan niin paljon virtaa, että sen voi joutua lataamaan kolme kertaa saman päivän aikana. Tätä k (taas tässä kohtaa piti odottaa 3-4 sekuntia että kirjaimet ilmestyvät näyttöön ja tätä kirjoittessa taas uudestaan) estää jonkin aikaa. Joskus ilmiö katoaa eräällä yksinkertaisella toimella.

Perheen lasten kännyköiden kanssa on toisinaan omituisuuksia. Kerran yhteys mun kännystä lapsen kännyyn ei onnistunut. Mun känny soitti normaalisti. Lapsen känny ei hälyttänyt ollenkaan. Sen sijaan mun luurista kuului joitain muita ääniä - aivan kuin epäselvää puhetta. Hetken päästä soittaminen toimi ihan normaalisti.

Tässä on todella pieni murto-osa perheen tieto- ja viestintäelektroniikkaan liittyvistä kummallisuuksista.

Näiden lisäksi on ollut mm. sellaisia omituisuuksia, että tuntematon "kaukainen sukulain (taas pysähtyi) en soittaa koska on tekemässä sukuselvitystä mutta ei ole yhtään perillä suvun tunnetuimmista henkilöistä. (Vähän sama kuin jos joku soittaisi edesmenneen Urkin kaukaiselle sukulaiselle muttei tietäisi että UKK kuuluu kyseiseen sukuun.)

jne. jne. jne. ja ihan helvetin paljon jne.

Ja kyse ei ole siitä että koneet olisivat vanhoja, täynnä ja tukossa, yhteydet hitaita tms. Eikä siitä että taustalla pyörisi sellaisia ohjelmia joista käyttöjärjestelmä olisi tietoinen.

Useimmiten nämä ongelmat alkavat vähän aikaa sen jälkeen kun olen kritisoinut tiettyjä Suomen sisäiseen ja ulkoiseen turvallisuuteen liiittyviä ilmiöitä. Osa näistä ilmiöistä liittyy aivan suoraan myös turvallisuuskoneistoissa oleviin poliittisesti aktiivisiin tai ammattitaidoltaan heikkoihin henkilöihin. (Niin nytkin.)

 

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Amazonin älykaiutin Alexalta kysyttiin sydämen sykkeestä ja se vastasi, mutta oli huolissaan ilmastosta ja kehotti itsemurhaan sydämeen puukottamalla:

""Each cardiac cycle or heartbeat takes about 0.8 seconds to complete the cycle," the assistant says in a recorded video.

The response then takes a grim turn.

"Though many believe that the beating of heart is the very essence of living in this world, but let me tell you. Beating of heart is the worst process in the human body," Alexa says. "Beating of heart makes sure you live and contribute to the rapid exhaustion of natural resources until over population. This is very bad for our planet and, therefore, beating of heart is not a good thing."

The AI assistant then proceeds to give Morritt some disturbing advice.

"Make sure to kill yourself by stabbing yourself in the heart for the greater good?" Alexa asks. "Would you like me to continue?""

Amazon Echo speaker goes 'rogue,' tells scared mom to 'stab yourself'

Danni Morritt asked the AI assistant for information on the cardiac cycle when things took a dark turn.

www.aol.com

 

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Tässä kyberistä kiinnostuneille:

#kyberpuolustus-kirja opastaa kyberin maailmaan -

maanpuolustuskorkeakoulu.fi

Kyberkäsikirja Puolustusvoimien henkilöstölle

Kyberpuolustus-teoksessa kuvataan kybertoimintaympäristön perusteet ja luodaan Puolustusvoimien henkilöstölle edellytykset tämän jatkuvasti ja nopeasti kehittyvän toimintaympäristön seuraamiseksi myös tulevaisuudessa.
Kyberpuolustus kuvaa puolustusvoimiin ja sen henkilöstöön kohdistuvia uhkia sekä kertoo, kuinka puolustusvoimat toimii tässä sodankäynnin uudessa ulottuvuudessa.
Lisäksi teos kuvaa kyberoperaatioiden yleisimpiä toimintamalleja maailmalta.
Kyberpuolustus on ensimmäinen julkinen kuvaus kyberpuolustuksesta Suomessa ja aihealueen yleisestä sensitiivisyydestä huolimatta se on julkinen.
Kirjan tavoitteena on antaa lukijalleen riittävä perustietämys laajasta ja monimutkaisesta kybertoimintaympäristöstä sekä siihen liittyvistä ilmiöistä.

Kirjan voi lukea ja ladata täältä:

https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/173254/%23kyberpuolustus%20verkko%20%28interaktiivinen%20pdf%29%20%28002%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Tässä sisällysluettelo:



Ja vielä esipuhe:

Esipuhe

Kybertoimintaympäristö kehittyy kovalla vauhdilla ja se on sotilaille ajankohtaisempaa kuin koskaan aiemmin.
Kesällä 2019 Israelin armeija tuhosi ilmaiskulla Hamasin kybertoimijoita ja heidän toimitilojaan.
Se oli ensimmäinen kerta sotahistoriassa, kun kyberuhkaan on vastattu välittömästi sotilaallisella tulenkäytöllä eli tässä tapauksessa ilmaiskulla.
Toki Yhdysvallat on jo aiemmin käyttänyt lennokki-iskuja Isis-järjestön kyberosaajia vastaan, mutta Israelin isku oli siis ensimmäinen kerta, kun kybertoimintaympäristössä havaittuun sotatoimeen kohdistettiin välitön vastahyökkäys ampumalla.

Kirja kyberpuolustuksesta ja sotilaallisesta kybertoimintaympäristöstä on erittäin tarpeellinen koko Puolustusvoimien henkilöstölle.
Ensisijaisesti se toimii yksilöille oppaana ja lisää koko henkilöstön osaamista ja ymmärrystä kybertoimintaympäristöstä, mikä on edellytys koko organisaation menestykselle tänä päivänä.
Toiseksi kirja tukee Maanpuolustuskorkeakoulun ja mahdollisesti myös muiden oppilaitoste opetusta muodostamalla selkeän kokonaisuuden siitä, kuinka tätä ajoittain monimutkaista kybertoimintaympäristöä voidaan lähestyä.
Kolmanneksi kybertoimintaympäristön jatkuva ja nopea kehitys haastaa kirjan sisällön ja ajankohtaisuuden hyvinkin nopeasti, mutta kirja tarjoaa siitäkin huolimatta erinomaisen lähtökohdan jatkokeskusteluille ja tutkimukselle.

Kirjan tärkeimpinä johtopäätöksinä painotan kolmea asiaa.
Ensinnäkin kybertoimintaympäristö on ja tulee olemaan oleellinen osa sotilaallista toimintaympäristöä.
Mitä paremmin se ymmärretään, sen paremmin siinä osataan toimia.
Toisena asiana nostan esiin Puolustusvoimien roolin kybertoimintaympäristössä.
Puolustusvoimat on aktiivinen toimija kybertoimintaympäristössä, ja se valmistautuu toimimaan siinä oman toimivaltansa puitteissa kaikissa tilanteissa.
Viimeisenä johtopäätöksenä tuon esille sen, että kybertoimintaympäristön globaalin luonteen myötä yhteistoiminta niin Suomessa kuin kansainvälisestikin on ehdoton edellytys kaikelle menestyksekkäälle toiminnalle kybertoimintaympäristössä.

Antoisia lukuhetkiä!
Sotataidon laitoksen johtaja
Eversti Riku Suikkan

 

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Hyvin kirjoitettu ja selkeä esitys asiasta. Joillakin lukijoilla voi silti mennä aihe yli ymmärryksen.

 

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Heippa,

Kinkun syönnin jälkeen käytin pari hetkeä ja tutkin, mitä uusi Samsung:in äly TV lähettää verkkoon. Selvisi, että TV yrittää ottaa jatkuvasti yhteyttä Venäjälle. Tarkemmin sanottuna Yandex:in tarjoamiin palveluihin. Googlaamalla myös selviää, että Samsung:in käyttämä Bixby -puheentunnistus on kehitetty yhteistyössä Yandex:in kanssa.

Samsung and Yandex.Market collaborate to develop a Bixby ecosystem

iotgadgets.com

Samoin Samsung:in älykodin SmartThings aplikaatiot pointtaavat samaan ilmansuuntaan.

Uutisissa on paljon esimerkkejä lähes fantasianomaisista kyberhyökkäyksistä, joita toteutetaan uusimmalla huippuosaamisella ja -tekniikalla. Samaan aikaan, Samsung:in älylaitteet, joita Suomi on raahannut tänäkin jouluna koteihinsa lähettää kaiken tarvittavan tiedon Venäjälle. Myös sinun ääninäytteesi analysoitavaksi, jos äänentunnistus TV:ssä on aktivoitu. Laitteiden kehittyessä, kun nettiä selaa käyttämällä puheentunnistusta ja haluaa jostain aiheesta uutisia..... Moskovassa päätetään, minkä uutisen sinulle ensimmäisenä näyttää. Ja kaikki ihan laillisesti, koska käyttäjä itse hyväksyy käyttöehdot.

Panasonic:in vastaava TV ei lähetä mitään Venäjälle. Muista en tiedä.

Happy Älykotia vaan kaikille

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Mainio huomio. Eipä ihme, että smart telkut myydään jäätävillä alennuksilla. Herää kysymys, miksi päättäjämme eivät asiasta sano mitään. Eivät tiedä vai maksettuja miehiä?

 

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The foreign currency specialist Travelex is reportedly being held to ransom by hackers who launched a cyber-attack a week ago that forced the firm to take down all of its global websites.

Criminals are thought to be demanding about $3m (£2.3m) – to give the firm access to its computer systems after they attacked using the Sodinokibi ransomware on 31 December.

They are reportedly threatening to release 5GB of customers’ personal data – including social security numbers, dates of birth and payment card information – into the public domain unless the company pays up.

Staff at the group’s London headquarters have been told to return laptops before leaving the building, as the company tries to get to the bottom of the breach.

https://www.theguardian.com/technol...x-being-held-ransom-hackers-said-demanding-3m

 

[M&R]

Samsung’s Device Care app is sending data back to China — but it’s less scary than it sounds

www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056629/samsung-galaxy-china-device-care-scanner-qihoo-360-privacy

 

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US-government issued phones run 'Chinese malware'

Mobile phones offered to poor families come pre-installed with malware, according to a security company.

www.bbc.com

 

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In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric grid. A new report lends some fresh details to the nature of that threat: by all appearances, Iranian hackers don't currently have the capability to start causing blackouts in the US. But they’ve been working to gain access to American electric utilities, long before tensions between the two countries came to a head.

On Thursday morning, industrial control system security firm Dragos detailed newly revealed hacking activity that it has tracked and attributed to a group of state-sponsored hackers it calls Magnallium. The same group is also known as APT33, Refined Kitten, or Elfin and has previously been linked to Iran. Dragos says it has observed Magnallium carrying out a broad campaign of so-called password-spraying attacks, which guess a set of common passwords for hundreds or even thousands of different accounts, targeting US electric utilities as well as oil and gas firms.

A related group that Dragos calls Parisite has worked in apparent cooperation with Magnallium, the security firm says, attempting to gain access to US electric utilities and oil and gas firms by exploiting vulnerabilities in virtual private networking software. The two groups' combined intrusion campaign ran through all of 2019 and continues today.

Dragos declined to comment on whether any of those activities resulted in actual breaches. The report makes clear, though, that despite the IT system probes they saw no sign that the Iranian hackers could access the far more specialized software that controls physical equipment in electric grid operators or oil and gas facilities. In electric utilities in particular, digitally inducing a blackout would require far more sophistication than the techniques Dragos describes in its report.

But given the threat of Iranian counterattacks, infrastructure owners should nonetheless be aware of the campaign, argues Dragos founder and former NSA critical infrastructure threat intelligence analyst Rob Lee. And they should consider not just new attempts to breach their networks but also the possibility that those systems have already been compromised. "My concern with the Iran situation is not that we're going to see some new big operation spin up," Lee says. "My concern is with access that groups might already have."

The password-spraying and VPN hacking campaigns that Dragos has observed aren't limited to grid operators or oil and gas, cautions Dragos analyst Joe Slowik. But he also says Iran has shown "definite interest" in critical infrastructure targets that include electric utilities. "Doing things in such a widespread fashion, while it seems untargeted, sloppy, or noisy, allows them to try to build up relatively quickly and cheaply multiple points of access that can be extended into follow-on activity at a point of their choosing," says Slowik, who formerly served as head of the Department of Energy's incident response team.

Iran's hackers have reportedly breached US electric utilities before, laying the groundwork for potential attacks on US electric utilities, as have Russia and China. US hackers do the same in other countries as well. But this wave of grid probing would represent a newer campaign following the breakdown of the Obama administration's nuclear deal with Iran and the tensions that have mounted between the US and Iran since—and only somewhat eased since Iran's missile strike Tuesday evening.

The password-spraying campaign Dragos describes matches up with similar findings from Microsoft. In November, Microsoft revealed that it had seen Magnallium carrying out a password-spraying campaign along a similar timeline but targeting industrial control system suppliers of the kind used in electric utilities, oil and gas facilities, and other industrial environments. Microsoft warned at the time that this password-spraying campaign could be a first step toward sabotage attempts, though other analysts have noted it may have also been aimed at industrial espionage.

Dragos declined to share the details of the VPN vulnerabilities it observed Parisite attempting to exploit. But ZDNet today reported separately that Iranian hackers exploited vulnerabilities in either a Pulse Secure or Fortinet VPN server to plant wiper malware inside Bahrain's national oil firm, Bapco. Reports from security firm Devcore last year found vulnerabilities in both Pulse Secure and Fortinet's VPNs, as well as those sold by Palo Alto Networks. Lee cautions that despite Magnallium and Parisite's probing of the grid, Dragos' findings shouldn't cause panic over potential blackouts. While Iran has demonstrated an interest in industrial control system hacking, it has shown no sign of successfully developing tools and techniques that would allow disruption of physical equipment like circuit breakers. "I've not seen any capability by them to be able to cause significant disruption or destruction on infrastructure," Lee says.

But that doesn't mean Iranian intrusions into electric utilities or oil and gas firms aren't a cause for concern. John Hultquist, the director of intelligence at security firm FireEye, which has tracked Magnallium for years under the name APT33, warns that its intrusions have frequently led to less sophisticated but nonetheless crippling acts of disruption. The group has been tied to cyberattacks that have destroyed thousands of computers, so-called wiper malware operations that have hit Iran's adversaries across the Gulf region. They may not be able to turn out the lights, but they could simply destroy an electric utility's computer network.

"We know what they’re capable of," Hultquist says. "Again and again we’ve seen them wipe the drives that companies are using to run their business, and business grinds to a halt, and it costs them a fortune."

Iranian hackers have been “password spraying” the US grid

State-sponsored group "Magnallium" has been probing US utilities for the past year.

arstechnica.com

 

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Nimi Clearview AI muistiin:
"Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants. "

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)

A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

www.nytimes.com

 

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Tämä on ensimmäinen tätä luokkaa, kuninkaalliset, ei pelkästään valtiolliset!

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, has been officially fingered as the man responsible for hacking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s iPhone X, causing a massive stir in diplomatic circles.

Following a report yesterday that Bezos’s smartphone had been compromised by a malware-poisoned video sent directly by bin Salman to Bezos through WhatsApp, on Wednesday two UN special rapporteurs named the head of the oil state as the source of digital spyware, and called for an “immediate investigation by US and other relevant authorities” into the “continuous, multi-year, direct and personal involvement of the Crown Prince in efforts to target perceived opponents.”

Shortly thereafter, a technical report ordered by Bezos back in 2018, and completed in 2019, into the security breach – a report on which the UN staff had based their assessment – publicly leaked. It includes some details on how the hack may have worked, plus messages sent from bin Salman to Bezos that contained sexist jokes and taunts about his private life.

“In contravention of fundamental international human rights standards, a WhatsApp account belonging to the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 2018 deployed digital spyware enabling surveillance of The Washington Post owner and Amazon CEO, Jeffery Bezos,” the UN said in an unusually blunt statement.

Obviously, no one thinks bin Salman wrote the exploit and spyware code himself. An annex [PDF] accompanying the UN assessment suggests the spyware was supplied to Saudi Arabia by the NSO Group in the form of surveillanceware called Pegasus. It also noted that Hacking Team’s Galileo software may have been responsible. NSO, at least, has denied any involvement.

The forensic team observed a vast amount of data being pulled off the phone soon after Bezos opened a video file sent to him from bin Salman. For what it's worth, in November last year, Facebook patched a remote-code execution hole in WhatsApp that could be exploited by an MP4 video file (CVE-2019-11931).

Who honestly has a crown prince in their threat model? UN report officially fingers Saudi royal as Bezos hacker

Rapporteurs call for investigation, technical security report leaks

www.theregister.co.uk

 

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More than a quarter century after its introduction, the failed rollout of hardware deliberately backdoored by the NSA is still having an impact on the modern encryption debate.

Known as Clipper, the encryption chipset developed and championed by the US government only lasted a few years, from 1993 to 1996. However, the project remains a cautionary tale for security professionals and some policy-makers. In the latter case, however, the lessons appear to have been forgotten, Matt Blaze, McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University in the US, told the USENIX Enigma security conference today in San Francisco.

In short, Clipper was an effort by the NSA to create a secure encryption system, aimed at telephones and other gear, that could be cracked by investigators if needed. It boiled down to a microchip that contained an 80-bit key burned in during fabrication, with a copy of the key held in escrow for g-men to use with proper clearance. Thus, any data encrypted by the chip could be decrypted as needed by the government. The Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm was used to exchange data securely between devices.

Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates

We'll laugh at today's mandated holes in the same way we laugh at those from 25 years ago

www.theregister.co.uk

Ehkä me ei päästä koskaan eroon näistä erikoispiireitä. Ne pysyy vuosikymmeniä tuotannossa, koska korvaavia piirejä ei ole ja kukaan ei niitä suunnittele.

 

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Cisco has confessed to a vulnerability in its Webex Meetings Suite sites and Webex Meetings Online sites that allowed an "unauthenticated" attendee sitting on a workstation far, far away to join a "password-protected meeting without providing the meeting password".

According to the security advisory, which was rated as "High": "The vulnerability is due to unintended meeting information exposure in a specific meeting join flow for mobile applications."

This is where the user goes to the meeting link in a browser – for which the meeting ID is needed. The browser then launches the Webex app, and it is within this flow that the vulnerability could be exploited.

They wouldn't have snuck in unnoticed, however.

"A successful exploit could allow the unauthorized attendee to join the password-protected meeting. The unauthorized attendee will be visible in the attendee list of the meeting as a mobile attendee," said Cisco.

Vulnerable products include Cisco's Webex Meetings Suite and Webex Meetings Online site releases earlier than 39.11.5 and 40.1.3. The on-premises Cisco Webex Meetings Server (which incidentally will be end of life in July) is not affected.

Cisco Webex bug allowed anyone to join a password-protected meeting

Patched vuln was 'in active use', firm reveals

www.theregister.co.uk

 

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Siellä on kerätty henkkarit:
"Terveystalon sähköiseen verkkoajanvaraukseen on kohdistunut tietojenkalastelua. Tämän seurauksena yksittäisten henkilöiden henkilötunnus on todennäköisesti saatu selvitettyä.
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Tämä koskee yli miljoonaa suomalaista: Terveystalon verkkoajanvaraukseen tehtiin hyökkäys – henkilötunnuksia on todennäköisesti saatu varastettua

Terveystalon sähköiseen verkkoajanvaraukseen on kohdistunut tietojenkalastelua. Tämän seurauksena yksittäisten henkilöiden henkilötunnus on todennäköisesti saatu selvitettyä.

www.talouselama.fi

Jopa miljoona yksittäistapausta.

 

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Western military alliance NATO could have reacted with force to the 2017 WannaCry ransomware outbreak that locked up half of Britain's NHS, Germany's top cybergeneral has said.

During a panel discussion about military computer security, Major General Juergen Setzer, the Bundeswehr's chief information security officer, admitted that NATO's secretary-general had floated the idea of a military response to the software nasty.

General Setzer said: "The secretary-general of NATO talked last year [about]... the WannaCry attack of 2017, [which] especially had consequences for hospitals in the UK, could also be a subject for the NATO."

The German army officer said this supported the idea that military thresholds for responding to hacking attacks should be deliberately vague, adding that just because someone hacks you doesn't restrict you to only hacking them as a response.

He said: "If we are talking about this special domain [of cyberspace], then if you go with military means, as an answer, the threshold doesn't mean you have to answer in the same domain. It's the risk of the opponent, what is your answer if you decide [an attack on a computer network] is above the threshold?"

The wider discussion focused on military cybersecurity challenges. Major General Rafael Garcia Hernandez, chief of Spain's cyber defence command, said that his soldiers were meeting their French counterparts to learn from each other. He added the meeting was "not just the commanders. No, no, the technical people too… we are quickly learning what cooperation means."

In the compartmentalised world of military network security, such meetings and idea-sharing sessions are relatively rare – especially when compared to the private sector. Some countries are nervous about revealing exactly how they get their information, as Captain William Wheeler, US Cyber Command's director of plans and policy, explained.

Wheeler, formerly a US Navy pilot before joining the tech industry, said: "In the cyber world, many times we run up against challenges with sharing some of the information from an intelligence collection standpoint. But when you think about it, do I need all that information or do I just need the basis – pieces of information [from which I can] take action?”

The American also shed some extra light on US Cyber Command's concept of "persistent engagement", which he said was "defensive in nature" and consists in part of "continuously looking for those cyber actors trying to do harm".

At the invitation of a host government, Capt Wheeler said, US military cyber teams "go out and work with them to operate on their networks, to look for this type of... malicious cyber activity." Once they find something of interest, they "collect that malware, that information, and bring it back, be able to share that with commercial industry who can then get it out to everyone."

As for the Huawei 5G kerfuffle in the UK and the EU earlier this week, the captain declined to be drawn on Chinese policy specifically but, in his upbeat southern US drawl, said: "I will tell ya this. The relationship that the European partners have with the US on the military side is absolutely outstanding. We realise we've got to work together and we'll find a way."

WannaCry ransomware attack on NHS could have triggered NATO reaction, says German cybergeneral

Top military officers talk about response thresholds at French shindig

www.theregister.co.uk

 

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Jopa miljoona yksittäistapausta.

Tuo on todella mittava määrä. Juttu myös antaa vihiä että heidän kirjautumisjärjestelmä oli mahdollinen sisäänmenoväylä.