Ryuk Ransomware, Twitter Rids SMS Tweets, And Facebook Records Exposed

ShadowTalk: Powered by ReliaQuest · Sep 7, 2019 · 22m

Alex, Alec, and Harrison are in the room today discussing 3 top stories from the week. First up - a hacker deploys Ryuk ransomware against the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, demanding $5.3 million. What was interesting, though, was that the city tried to negotiate with the attackers for a lower ransom of $400k, but the attackers didn’t want it and ended up cutting off communications. Next the guys chat through the suspension of Twitter’s SMS-based tweet function after the news of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account was “hacked”. An interesting attack surface incident for phone…