I do not think it is appropriate any more for the NCA to saying it’s up to the victim orgs if they want to pay extortions, and/or being in the room during negotiations and payment.

It’s leading to boards assuming they can just pay criminal gangs to make problems go away.

It isn’t normal and needs to change.

Corporations shouldn’t be directly funding organised crime with the support of the National Crime Agency and their insurance. Break the cycle.

If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.

www.reddit.com/r/Ex...

You may have seen the fancy AI video unveil of Sora earlier this year, from OpenAI - showing absolutely incredible footage.

Well, they allowed people to use it this week - and it’s terrible. Laughably poor, people with 4 arms etc etc. I might have to do a thread of videos it spits out.

Between Apple Intelligence being kinda crap, OpenAI overhype and burning money like a furnace, and Copilot+ PCs not exactly flying off the shelves, the shareholder value train is going to crash at some point.

I haven't been able to assess the security of the public build of Microsoft Recall as the processes keep crashing on my Copilot+ PC out of the box, it helps if the product would work at least.

ENGlobal Corporation, an energy company, have filed an 8K with the SEC for ransomware (missing the word ransomware). www.sec.gov/ix?doc=...

#threatintel #ransomware

NoName057(16) back to targeting UK this week, they're going to run all week. Thread for the week.

Current DDoS config, 17 orgs, UK councils and transport. Approx 70% success rate.

#NoName #threatintel

NoName057(16) back to targeting UK this week, they're going to run all week. Thread for the week.

Current DDoS config, 17 orgs, UK councils and transport. Approx 70% success rate.

#NoName #threatintel

Poland’s former spy chief was detained and dragged before parliament on Monday as part of a probe into whether the previous rightwing government misused spyware to put its opponents under surveillance.

Piotr Pogonowski, who ran Poland’s internal security agency under the administration of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and is currently a member of the central bank’s management board, was arrested after ignoring three summons from the parliamentary inquiry committee. www.ft.com/content/...

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I feel like most of infosec mastodon has gone to BlueSky, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to move to a platform owned by a blockchain company.

NoName057(16) back to targeting UK this week, they're going to run all week. Thread for the week.

Current DDoS config, 17 orgs, UK councils and transport. Approx 70% success rate.

#NoName #threatintel

Joe Biden

The Blue Yonder SaaS ransomware incident is bad.

They got into their Private Cloud environment at hypervisor level, deleted the DR and backup storage, then encrypted all 5 datacenters.

Dumb generative AI projects in companies, project outline document:

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Joe Biden

A reminder that everything being shared online about the Southport attacker is not real, and is being reshared by media outlets in Russia to peddle anti-migrant fears (and by IT people on LinkedIn).

The person also isn’t called Ali Al-Shakati, and did not arrive by boat.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/...