cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/3473050
“In this video I discuss how MGM and Cesar’s Entertainment Resort/Casinos were hacked by a ransomware group and had sensitive customer data and company data exfiltrated from their servers. So far Cesar’s Entertainment has paid half of the 30 million dollar to keep files from being released by MGM has paid nothing and the hackers are threatening to ruin MGM’s reputation with a data leak.”
Better them than schools.
Was there a group that accidentally infected a bunch of hospitals and provided the decryption key at no charge?
Better still, nobody at all.
Every success like this just encourages more to enter the game.
Sure, but I’m not shedding too many tears in this case.
They are not giving this windfall to charity.
When they use these funds to attack more targets, including schools, hospitals etc will you be happy then?
That is the problem. Every win by these groups fuels more activity.
If they figure out that casinos and the like are far more profitable, they’ll leave the schools alone.
You give these cunts much higher morals than they have.
They are not robin hood, they are criminal gangs who will attack anyone and everyone.
It’s not about morals. Why rob a candy store when a bank is around the corner?
They are not robin hood, they are criminal gangs who will attack anyone and everyone.
Because a candy store has neither the budget nor capabilities for security that a bank has, including armed security.
I don’t see how that figures at all. Ransomware attacks are like spam. You cast wide. It’s nopt liek a zero-sum game, where your number of attacks are limited
I don’t care. Organizations should have better security culture or use fewer computers, this is an abject win in my view
I’m curious what you have in mind for the “use fewer computers” solution. Like, have people go back to using pen and paper? Scale back their business so they need fewer computers?
have people go back to using pen and paper
If it’s so important losing access to it costs you $50 million a day I would look at the supposed savings it brings you and gauge your risks accordingly
Hmmm, ok
I mean… Do schools and hospitals have that kind of money at all? You attack school with ransomware and then what? Ask them to pay? With what money, lol? Are they going to pay in kids chromebooks? It’s far more lucrative to attack something that actually has money
I suspect this will change once insurance companies stop giving coverage for ransomware. It’s already been happening for a few years.
Welp, if you’re targeting schools and hospitals, that means, you’re pretty fucking stupid. And if you’re pretty fucking stupid, then there’s a high change you’re going to get caught sooner or later. So whatever, lol
Gambling is a disgusting industry that preys on the stupid.
It should be illegal. Or taxed to a fucking standstill and beyond, with all that tax money going straight to education budgets.
Yes to taxing, no to illegality. It’s not as if gambling was better when the mob ran it.
Not on the stupids, on the addicts.
if it’s taxed more, wouldn’t that just make them worsen the chances to compensate?
Last weeks news, story has moved on to multiple casinos
It would be hilarious if they hit their AP database and removed all the people that were unfairly entered because they “were too good.”
Seriously, nobody is shedding a tear on these parasitic casinos that provide no societal benefit.
Based hackers
All that money and they couldn’t be bothered to pay their IT dept.
Gambling is a disgusting industry that preys on the stupid.
It should be illegal. Or taxed to a fucking standstill and beyond, with all that tax money going straight to education budgets.
