Gavin Ashton and Bharat Halai worked in identity and access management at Maersk. What if destructive malware disguised as ransomware nearly sank not just one company but many? Shipping giant Maersk was one of dozens of organisations crippled by the NotPetya malware in June 2017.
The Ransomware Files theme song by Chris Gilbert/© Ordinary Weirdos Music.įollow The Ransomware Files on Twitter: The Ransomware Files on Instagram: 39 min Source material and transcript for this episode are here. Speakers: Rick Myers, Founder, TSM Consulting Nancy Rainosek, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Texas Mandy Crawford, Chief Information Officer, State of Texas Andy Bennett, Former Deputy Chief Information Security Officer and now Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Security Officer with Apollo Information Systems Danny Miller, Chief Information Security Officer, Texas A&M University System Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group. This episode is going to reveal never-before-public details about the attack in Texas, how the state recovered so quickly and explore the human cost of ransomware. But a small managed service provider called TSM Consulting, which the ransomware actors exploited in a supply-chain style attack, sustained irreparable damage. The cities recovered with remarkable speed due to the state's diligent preparation. In 2019, 23 cities across Texas were infected with the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware in one of the largest ransomware attacks that has ever occurred in the US. The Ransomware Files theme song by Chris Gilbert/© Ordinary Weirdos Musicįollow The Ransomware Files on Twitter: The Ransomware Files on Instagram: 46 min Sources and the transcript for this episode are here. Speakers: Robert Cioffe, Founder, Progressive Computing Frank Breedijk, Manager, CSIRT, DIVD Victor Gevers, Chairman, DIVD Jason Manar, Chief Information Security Officer, Kaseya Jon DiMaggio, Chief Security Strategist, Analyst1 John Hammond, Senior Security Researcher, Huntress Espen Johansen, Security Director, Visma Group Adrian Stanila, Senior Information Security Researcher, Visma Group George Zamfir, Security Analyst, Visma Group Jeremy Kirk, Executive Editor, Information Security Media Group.
The information, which describes the vulnerabilities in Kaseya's Virtual Systems Administrator software, can be found on DIVD's website.
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This episode of The Ransomware Files also coincides with the release of new technical information from the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure about the software vulnerabilities that were exploited by the ransomware gang. And in the end, a rare action happened: Someone was actually arrested. It involves the use of zero-day software vulnerabilities known only to a handful of people, a race between attackers trying to snare ransom payments and defenders developing a patch, and a secret operation that hacked back against the REvil hackers. The REvil ransomware gang's attack against the US software company Kaseya in 2021 is not only amongst the largest ransomware attacks of all time, but it's also one of the most intriguing.