Originally Posted by
rthonpm
Wouldn't matter who is in the White House, that's never been a concern for state actors or criminal groups. There's no enthrallment to American politics, state actors know that no-one is going to a shooting war over ransomeware and corporate hacks as long as they don't affect critical infrastructure, and criminals are deep enough into the shadows that they can always design some plausible deniability or get cover from a state agents.
Attacks like this have been happening for years, it's just becoming more of a commodity service as opposed to always being nation states. There are even criminal organisations that will do ransomeware as a service for a cut of any ransom.
The real issue is the state of most corporate networks is incredibly sloppy, or pieced together thanks to the need to keep legacy software floating around or just the offloading of access and management to centralized systems where one attack gives access to multiple networks at once.
In many ways, this is just an escalation of the same kind of industrial espionage that nation states have pursued for years, except now it can also be used to not only exfiltrate data, but also to gain money from the fools willing to pay ransom, but not willing to pay to backup and protect their data. Everything old is new again.
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