Pulse of Truth

1436 readers

42 users here now

Cyber Security news and links to cyber security stories that could make you go hmmm. The content is exactly as it is consumed through RSS feeds and wont be edited (except for the occasional encoding errors).

This community is automagically fed by an instance of Dittybopper.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

krogoth

Ransomware scum who hit Indonesian government apologizes, hands over encryption key (go.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lemmydev2 to c/pulse_of_truth

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Brain Cipher was never getting the $8 million it demanded anyway Brain Cipher, the group responsible for hacking into Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) and disrupting the country's services, has seemingly apologized for its actions and released an encryption key to the government.…

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Translation: "This got a bit more high profile than we wanted, we're gonna go after quieter targets now, kthxbai."

[–] CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

or "we'll pay but only if you help us save face"