The scripting / predictive programming around #Cyberpandemic is intensifying. Prepare for grid outages and further supply chain disruptions imminently:

CIA Director Bill Burns told the House panel that China “poses the single biggest geopolitical test for the United States as far out into the 21st century as I can see.”

China “can launch cyber attacks that, at a minimum, can cause localized, temporary disruptions to critical infrastructure within the United States,”

https://www.hstoday.us/subject-matter-areas/infrastructure-security/intel-agencies-warn-of-more-destructive-and-disruptive-cyber-attacks-against-infrastructure-supply-chains/

Klaus Schwab the Great Reset

#wef #hacking #cyberpandemic #cyberpolygon

A hacker attempted to poison the water supply in California by stealing an employee's login information at a facility in the Bay Area and attempting to delete treatment programs, a new report has revealed.  

#cyberpandemic #water

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9709913/Hacker-tried-poison-Ca-water-supply-breaking-facility-manipulating-water-treatment.html

Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy

With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the World Economic Forum’s real ambitions in cybersecurity – to create a global organization aimed at gutting even the possibility of anonymity online. With the governments of the US, UK and Israel on board, along with some of the world’s most powerful corporations, it is important to pay attention to their endgame, not just the simulations.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ending-anonymity-why-wefs-partnership-against-cybercrime-threatens-future-privacy/

@unlimitedhangout @TLAVagabond

#CyberPolygon #CyberPandemic #CyberAttack #WEF #ot

District council declares Germany's first-ever 'cyber-catastrophe'

The #cyberpandemic continues!

'We are almost completely paralyzed,' says a spokesperson from Anhalt-Bitterfeld municipality in eastern Germany

A district council in eastern Germany has declared a disaster after its computer systems were paralyzed by a hacker attack in what the federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed was the country's first-ever "cyber-catastrophe."

Hackers knocked out the IT operations of the municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, on Tuesday, July 6, a spokesperson confirmed to Reuters on Saturday, July 10.

"We are almost completely paralyzed," the spokesperson said, adding its offices would probably remain offline next week and giving no indication of when services would resume.

The municipality declined comment on the identity of the attacker or whether they had made a ransom demand, citing a police investigation. Security sources say German local governments often run outdated and poorly maintained software systems that could be wide open to cyberattack.

The rural district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, with a population of 157,000, is for the time being unable to pay out welfare benefits. Its consequent catastrophe declaration is a formal step that allows it to call for federal help.
The cyberattack is the latest in a series of incidents targeting public infrastructure, including the recent takedown of the US Colonial Pipeline, while extortionists have also targeted widely-used IT applications with ransomware attacks.

https://www.rappler.com/world/europe/germany-anhalt-bitterfield-declare-cyber-catastrophe-2021

"We have been hacking systems around the world, justifying the roll out the biometric Internet ID we've been wanting anyway!"

#Cyberpandemic

https://sociable.co/government-and-policy/cybersecurity-clear-immediate-danger-society-klaus-schwab-cyber-polygon/

US State Dept claims it has been hit with a cyberattack but is unwilling to discuss any details:

#Cyberpandemic

https://twitter.com/jacquiheinrich/status/1429173371951058944?s=21

Whoa! FBI warns of ransomware gangs targeting food, agriculture orgs

The FBI says ransomware gangs are actively targeting and disrupting the operations of organizations in the food and agriculture sector, causing financial loss and directly affecting the food supply chain.

Ransomware gangs started focusing their attacks against this industry sector after food and agriculture orgs have become increasingly dependent on smart tech, industrial control systems (ICS), and internet-based automation systems.

"Food and agriculture businesses victimized by ransomware suffer significant financial loss resulting from ransom payments, loss of productivity, and remediation costs.”

#Cyberpandemic

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-warns-of-ransomware-gangs-targeting-food-agriculture-orgs

Cyberattack shuts down US grain distributor — (this is the third attack/distributor)

At least three U.S. grain distributors’ systems have been infected with ransomware in recent weeks, raising concerns that hackers have found an easy target in a vital part of the U.S. food supply chain.

All three known victims are Midwestern grain cooperatives that buy grain from farmers and then process, store and resell it for uses like livestock feed and fuel. The attacks, in which organized cybercriminals lock up organizations’ computers and demand ransom for a program to unlock them, has slowed the distributors’ operations, hampering their ability to quickly process grain as it comes in.

The timing is particularly bad, said Charles Hurburgh, the head of Iowa State University’s Grain Quality Laboratory.

“We’re going into harvest, and right now is when they’re taking in a large amount of grain and putting out a large amount of grain,” Hurburgh said. “It’s a real nasty situation.”

Like many industries, grain production involves heavily digitized operations that were previously done by hand. Hackers who deploy ransomware, locking up their computers and demanding payment, may not be able to stop the distributors entirely, but they can severely slow them down.

The largest of the three known victims, New Cooperative in Iowa, is still working to restore automated systems after it was hacked last month, a spokesperson said in a statement. An employee for another, Farmers Cooperative Co., also in Iowa, declined to comment, citing advice from the company’s attorneys. The third, Crystal Valley in Minnesota, didn’t respond to emails and voicemails.

Private files of all three have been published to ransomware hackers’ websites, which NBC News has viewed, a common tactic for ransomware hackers to deploy against victims who refuse to pay.

While grain is a key component to the U.S. food supply chain, its market is large enough that the country won’t see a noticeable effect from slowed production by three distributors, Hurburgh said.

#Cyberpandemic #usa

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ransomware-hackers-find-vulnerable-target-us-grain-supply-rcna2702

The semi-official ISNA news agency, which first called the incident a cyberattack, said it saw those trying to buy fuel with a government-issued card instead receive a message reading “cyberattack 64411.”...

The use of the number “64411” mirrored an attack in July targeting Iran’s railroad system that also saw the number displayed. Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point later attributed the train attack to a group of hackers who called themselves Indra, after the Hindu god of war.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-10-26/iran-cyberattack-closes-gas-stations

#iran #cyberpolygon #cyberpandemic

Ukraine: Government websites down after “huge cyberattack”

The websites contained a message in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish, saying that Ukrainians' personal data has been leaked into the public domain. “Be afraid and expect the worst. This is for your past, present and future," the message read, in part.

The country's minister for digital transformation [!], Mykhailo Fedorov, insisted that personal data was safe, since “the operability of the websites, not the registries,” was affected by the hack. Fedorov said that some of the attacked websites were blocked by their administrators in order to contain the damage and investigate the attacks.

#Cyberpandemic

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ukraine-government-websites-hacking-attack-82261780

#cyberpolygon #cyberpandemic #oil #eu

European oil port terminals hit by cyberattack

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/major-northwest-europe-oil-terminals-170000769.html

https://insiderpaper.com/european-oil-port-terminals-hit-by-cyberattack/