Was The US Federal Reserve Really Just Hacked?!

0:00 Intro
00:15 Federal reserve hacked?
2:32 Discord Emoji Malware Targets Governments
4:57 2 Arrested over 'SMS Blasting'

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[Seytonic]

UPDATE: The timer hit zero and the data was published! Though the dump is NOT from the Federal Reserve, but rather "Evolve Bank & Trust"... so this is a bit of a nothing burger...

[_JohnHammond]

LockBit infrastructure still choking hard after the publish time but it seems to be data for an entirely different organization, and not the federal reserve?? 😂🤣

[yeahaddigirl]

Downloading 33Tb from the government just to realize it's almost exclusively duplicate PDF uploads and massive email reply chains where each reply includes the entire previous convo.

[pelic]

Sounds about right.
My office's coffemaker logs are about 30TB, too.

[Hoopaugi]

the fed having internet connected coffee machines would be a huge security risk

[CyberStudies]

The $50k negotiation offer for the LockBit story was semi-comical lol I’d say it’s kind of common now to lie about what info these data brokers claim to have but oh well. Good video as always!!!

[titanicoftitanfall]

This is either gonna be big asf or fake lmao

[Berkshire-Hathaway]

The audio at the end of the video is really really quiet.
Other than that, it was a banger video.
Thanks for telling us about what's happening in the cyber-world and keeping us up-to-date!

[remrevo]

ELF stands for executable and linkable format and they don't really have any file extension.
In general the file extension is mostly just for the user on linux and files are actually identified using so called magic bytes, which are the first few bytes of a file.
The `file` utility can be used to show the actual file format a file has.

[Aeduo]

The use of emojis I could see being useful to avoid having to do much localization within the code (makes the payload smaller and simpler to implement), and just allow someone to use an emoji picker to select tasks which most modern OSes will have built in. Maybe also avoids having as many telltale strings that could be meaningful as signatures.

Also I get enough SMS spam without having to have folks driving by with SMS spam boxes. These honestly seem kinda silly to a degree unless you have some specific reason to target a relatively small geographic location. Otherwise it seems to cost spammers basically nothing to just blanket spam a bunch of numbers remotely from some server somewhere.

[InsaneFirebat]

I was hoping to hear about whatever ransomware took down some of the networked systems that a lot of US auto dealerships use. They're doing things on pen and paper and billing later. Since last week at least.

[mydimeisup]

Are you able to do a part on the CDK cyberattack that has hit a lot of dealers recently in your next vid?

[stpaquet]

There is a connection between the 2, there are posts around June 14 - 18 of 2024 that "US Federal Reserve Board issues cease and desist order against Evolve Bank". They also seem to be used by Mercury bank.... so the leak could impact customers outside of their own network.

[esco]

One of the ways you can force a phone down to a lower cell technology is by raising the noise floor and ruining the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Effectively jamming them off of 3g-5g. Then the phones will look for 2g towers, which the only requirement for is whoever is the most powerful, and since they are driving around in cars probably putting out the most amount of power they can, they will probably pick them up providing their MCC, MNC and ARFCN are correct. Which can easily be surveyed by looking at your own phone's network properties.

[DaisyAjay]

I'm glad they caught those SMS blasters in the UK. I guess that answers why they only flooded my city with spam every few weeks. Must have been driving around the country for maximum effect.

[dinred_]

Note for those on recent android : you can just disable 2g in the settings, which completely deletes these attacks.

[roombacate]

300 dollars for delivery for one of those sms blasters is insane. i better be getting overnight shipping with that

[DonVigaDeFierro]

They could have increased the time limit to something ridiculous, like three months, and promised to increase the amount demanded every day, while promising to release some insanely critical info.

See how much they could have stood there without flinching, even if it was absolutely nothing.

[aronoc]

It's 2024 so I wouldn't be surprised if there was an unoptimized IoT coffeemaker that had a 33TB hard drive, and that the Fed used it for important data, lol.

[adansmith]

this is going to be a shitty next few months for the lockbit guys.
this is like screaming "target me! please!"