勒索软件与网络犯罪

2021 5月，被称为美国机构网络攻击能力教父和指挥官的吉姆·戈斯勒（JimGosler）表示，“要么情报界（IC）会成长和适应，要么互联网会把我们活活吃掉。”戈斯勒是在9·11恐怖袭击前几个月退休时发表这番讲话的。他可能没有意识到他和数万名美国IC攻击性网站特工创建并开始的催化剂或海啸。
在过去20年里，戈斯勒和他的互联网键盘战士大军创造的东西将成为每一个不知名、匿名、国家资助或个人网络犯罪分子针对一个粗心大意、保护不善的人复制的作案手法，还有一群无知的高管和安全专业人士，他们对美国和英国机构以安全名义领导的互联网秘密渗透和武器化方法知之甚少甚至一无所知。
这本书涵盖了许多网络和勒索软件攻击和事件，包括我们如何达到大规模数字利用的程度，尤其是在全球封锁和2019冠状病毒疾病疫情期间，在线消费将导致网络犯罪造成的金钱损失是在线消费的两倍。
这几乎没有归因，而且IC本身也遭受了网络攻击，当然，他们都被指责为老练的人。我们正在目睹我们的整个生活方式、我们的经济，甚至我们的自由遭到破坏。IC有很多问题需要解决，并且毫不含糊地造成了我们目前所处的灾难性局面。他们目前几乎没有答案。我们需要——不，我们必须要求——改变。这一变化必须从确保互联网及其所有连接安全开始，不再允许ICs和网络罪犯轻松访问和过滤。
Ransomware and Cybercrime
In May 2021, Jim Gosler, known as the Godfather and commander of US agencies’ cyber offensive capability, said, ”Either the Intelligence Community (IC) would grow and adapt, or the Internet would eat us alive.” Mr Gosler was speaking at his retirement only several months before the terrorist attacks of 9/11. He possibly did not realise the catalyst or the tsunami that he and his tens of thousands of US IC offensive website operatives had created and commenced.
Over the last two decades, what Mr Gosler and his army of Internet keyboard warriors created would become the modus operandi for every faceless, nameless, state-sponsored or individual cybercriminal to replicate against an unwary, ill-protected, and ignorant group of executives and security professionals who knew little to nothing about the clandestine methods of infiltration and weaponisation of the Internet that the US and UK agencies led, all in the name of security.
This book covers many cyber and ransomware attacks and events, including how we have gotten to the point of massive digital utilisation, particularly during the global lockdown and COVID-19 pandemic, to online spending that will see twice the monetary amount lost to cybercrime than what is spent online.
There is little to no attribution, and with the IC themselves suffering cyberattacks, they are all blamed on being sophisticated ones, of course. We are witnessing the undermining of our entire way of life, our economies, and even our liberties. The IC has lots to answer for and unequivocally created the disastrous situation we are currently in. They currently have little to no answer. We need–no, we must demand–change. That change must start by ensuring the Internet and all connections to it are secure and no longer allow easy access and exfiltration for both the ICs and cybercriminals.

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