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Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by joshypants »

_8j50 wrote: post #70

From what I read the hack was not sophisticated at all. If they had decent endpoint protection this would not have happened. Maybe they disabled defender after the initial access and privesc because defender blocks Get-Keystrokes and other things in empire,even with significant modification. Anyway, I don't care about the hacktivism and propaganda (don't really get it -- tbh,rich people bad/corrupt?) But would very m…

The future of the species is literally imperiled right now because we've allowed rich people to hoard wealth, so that's a reason to care.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by pc86 »

SlowRobotAhead wrote: post #98
_8j50 wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dude, forget a pentest, have a security architect look things over. Simple segmentation and endpoint firewall witha good edr might have stopped this. Everyone misses the basics, a lot of networks were pieced together 10+ years ago when people were not as security conscious as they are now.

Our first pen test, before I took over as CTO... We had a JSON file with admin credentials on a shared drive. IT company needed it there so some tool could log in as admin and do some robot work. Fired them, and good riddance. But... STUPID SIMPLE things can get overlooked for years until you have someone else come in and test. +1 for pentests.

So after firing the vendor, who on your side got fired for allowing it in the first place?

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by CamperBob2 »

iudqnolq wrote: post #27
1000units wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Epstein wasn't a normal prisoner. None of this is particularly relevant.

Ken White addresses this. Even with high profile prisoners, guards face minimal accountability in the US prison system.

Once again, that's a general statement that doesn't apply here. Rest assured that heads will roll/have already rolled over this.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by malvosenior »

iudqnolq wrote: post #23
m0zg wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure the journalists would easily manage to make Panama very interesting if their owners didn't tell them to knock it off. Same as with Epstein. Scandal of the century, not discussed at all within 2 weeks, no follow up or investigative journalism of any kind.

I found former prosecutor and current defense attorney Ken White's perspective on Epstein's death very interesting. Many of the arguments for a conspiracy are based in a misunderstanding of how awfully our justice system treats people all the time. Being on suicide watch and not being helped is normal . > Ken "Popehat" White (previously) has expanded on his excellent Twitter thread about Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in…

No one had killed themselves in that prison in over ten years.

You have to really contort all the information available in this case to see it as anything other than a massive cover up. People in the media going out of their way to claim it's a "conspiracy theory" should be held in utmost suspicion. Look at how ABC spiked the story of Epstein before it became public and how the other major networks have since played along. Including CBS firing the ABC whistle blower (who had since moved on to working with them) at ABC's request.

I don't know what Popehat's motives are for trying to cover this up further, but I bet he's friends with people who are implicated.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by Thriptic »

Miner49er wrote: post #4
chelmzy wrote: post #3

Pastebin with translated guide on how they hacked the bank: https://pastebin.com/8rXhtqgr

Also contains some info on how they hacked Hacking Team and Gamma Group. Edit: Also a $100k bounty for future hacks on certain types of companies.

She also attacked the Barcelona police department, the Turkish government, and stole money from various Bitcoin wallets to donate to the Kurds iirc. Her write-ups are always really great reads and very enlightening.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by iudqnolq »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #113
iudqnolq wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ken White addresses this. Even with high profile prisoners, guards face minimal accountability in the US prison system.

Once again, that's a general statement that doesn't apply here. Rest assured that heads will roll/have already rolled over this.

You are completely right I made a general argument. I didn't say that Epstein must have committed suicide. I said that an argument based in the idea that Epstein was treated in a shockingly irregular manner ignores the state of the US justice system.

As to heads rolling, the low-level guards in charge of watching Epstein are on unpaid leave and under investigation. The head of the Bureau of Prisons has been demoted to his previous job as the head of a department in the bureau of prisons. I wouldn't call that accountability.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by justaguyhere »

glofish wrote: post #18
hurrdurr2 wrote: post #7

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Regrettably the media needs to publish what gets the most clicks; unfortunately what gets the most clicks these days is partisan stories that gets readers riled up. That Panama leak story was also quickly "forgotten" by the MSM.

Are you blaming the media for getting people what they want? As long as people demand the click-bait only the ones that provide such content will survive. Let's thank our luck that it is not Infowars style clickbait, so some resemblance of sanity still remains. FWIW the Panama papers have had a noticeable impact, especially where it matters most, clawing money back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

Not your parent comment and not blaming the media for giving people what they want (especially since the media has trained consumers not to pay for news)

That said, this argument of giving people what they want is a weird one. It is like taking the easiest and the laziest route to profit. Also, there is a not insignificant population that still wants facts and not click baity nonsense. But media churns out click baits because it is easier and faster.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by malvosenior »

jjeaff wrote: post #16
Miner49er wrote: post #11

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Not sure why you're being downvoted. "Epstein didn't kill himself" is still a meme. That proves there's a market for the Epstein news, IMO. The public absolutely cares. Plus, there's evidence it's being swept under the rug: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/leaked-fo...

I'm hindsight, it's obvious that an interview like that should have been aired. But it makes total sense not to air something so inflammatory back then with corroborating evidence. It would have sounded pretty outlandish. A girl says she was made a sex slave by a guy named Epstein that didn't really have a public profile and she was forced to sleep with the prince of Wales. As a journalist, you need impeccible source…

Epstein absolutely had a massive public profile when this story would have aired. When he was first arrested there were many stories about him. There were multiple witnesses and mountains of credible evidence. It was a cover up plain and simple.

Re: Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

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Post by coliveira »

jokoon wrote: post #21

After watching The laundromat, I think it's big news. Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth, and why they're trusted to do it. This can't be secure or safe. I'm curious about the diplomacy and the political implications of this. What if their office get robbed? What if the island gets attacked? What if one of those shady ban…

> I don't understand how this is even legal at all.

A lot of the process is not legal. That's why it is a scandal when they find this kind of information. But the existence of this type of service is practically guaranteed for the same reason: a lot of the money in these accounts was acquired in shady, if not totally ilegal ways. Even if countries make it completely illegal, there will be a lot of clients for offshore accounts. You can think of this as a modern version of pirates hiding their illegal treasures in some Caribbean island.

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