Gotta paraphrase RiskyBiz on this one; release the hounds. This kind of attack should be treated with the same severity as if you went and drove a truck through the hospital’s main transformers IRL; if you ransomware a hospital, you should be seriously concerned about ordnance coming through your front window
Any cyber warfare should be.
It’s one thing to snoop around some corporate website looking for bugs to extort. That’s a crime. You shouldn’t do it, if you get caught you should get a knock on your door from a police officer. They want to start by asking some questions.
It’s a completely different thing to use those tactics on state infrastructure. That should be seen as an act of war. Your front door should be forcibly beaten down with a battering ram.
looking for bugs to extort
I sleep
Looking for bugs to responsibly disclose, ideally through a bug bounty program
REAL SHIT
I’m not generally one who thinks digital shenanigans deserves a kenetic response, but these sorts of callous assholes definitely deserve a taste of freedom delivered straight to their door.
What kind of loser (sh*thead) can do this and think that’s okay.
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Still you have to be utter sh*t if you want to intentionally harm kids and I just wonder how those people are sleeping at night
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Wait, didn’t you just describe a fair chunk of the US?
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Bro, listing a EU country as a place with real poverty is about as on key as the USA haha.
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There’s no way they’re this stupid, right?
You can piss off the rich folks, but most regular people won’t care most of the time, especially since people don’t give a flying fuck about their data privacy anyway, but this is the point where you really put a target on your back.
Stick to casinos, finance and market makers, the general public won’t bat an eye. Go after kids at a non profit? Well good luck, no one is even pretending to be on your side anymore.
This is also why you shouldn’t pay the fuckers. It just encourages them to do it more.
That requires the people at the top to have the intelligence to hire a competent IT department and keep frequent enough back ups. This is a line of though most of American civilian leadership rejects outright. They see IT as nothing but a huge cost that can be cut at a moment’s notice and then offshored to some third world country to “save money.” A move which invariably costs them more money, but that’s next quarter’s problem.
