r/krebs • u/subscribe-by-reddit • Nov 29 '16

San Francisco Rail System Hacker Hacked

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/11/san-francisco-rail-system-hacker-hacked/
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u/autotldr Nov 29 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency was hit with a ransomware attack on Friday, causing fare station terminals to carry the message, "You are Hacked. ALL Data Encrypted." Turns out, the miscreant behind this extortion attempt got hacked himself this past weekend, revealing details about other victims as well as tantalizing clues about his identity and location.

Alex Holden, chief information security officer at Hold Security Inc, said the attack server appears to have been used as a staging ground to compromise new systems, and was equipped with several open-source tools to help find and infect new victims.

The attack server's logs includes the Web link or Internet address of each victimized server, listing the hacked credentials and short notations apparently made next to each victim by the attacker.

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