Oh, and, our hero, he’s just 21 years old. In a moment we’ll hear about someone who successfully interrupted the ransom payment process all on his own. intelligence community, and to designate the current wave of digital extortion as a national security threat.
The Ransomware Task Force urged the Biden White House to make finding, frustrating, and apprehending the parties responsible for ransomware a priority within the U.S. In response to this increasing plague upon the internet, there’s a public/private partnership that has created a task force designed to disrupt the ransom payments, thereby disincentivizing the attacks. Sometimes, even when you do pay, your data still might not be recovered. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. And he's rightRansomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Vamosi: That's Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency under the US Department of Homeland Security. Krebs: W e are on the cusp of a global digital economy driven by greed, a vulnerable digital ecosystem, and an ever widening criminal. Vamosi: With the Colonial Pipeline criminal attack, we’ve seen that ransomware is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe. He also talks about his infosec journey hacking cryptocurrencies, joining the Digital Defense Service and CISA, and helping secure the 2020 presidential election… all before the age of 22. In this episode, Jack Cable talks about hacking the Qlocker ransomware and briefly interrupting its payment system.
What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? Would you use it? Would you help others?
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