Bravo Zulu

Stolen entire from Borepatch:

The Bad Guys are on a losing streak

Earlier this week we saw a bunch of Russian hackers sentenced to prison, now we see Interpol execute a massive take down of multiple groups of Bad Guys:

Interpol is reporting a big win after a massive combined operation against online criminals made 41 arrests and seized hardware thought to be used for nefarious purposes.

Operation Synergia II – the follow up to the first Synergia raids that were announced in February – saw cops in 95 countries crack down on phishers, ransomware extortionists, and information thieves around the world. The operation was carried out in conjunction with the corporate world, specifically Group-IB, Trend Micro, Kaspersky and Team Cymru.

In addition to the arrests, Interpol revealed 65 people are still under investigation and claimed to have shuttered 22,000 IP addresses, taken control of 59 servers and 43 other computing devices.

Bravo Zulu, y'all.

Bravo Zulu? Navy term for 'well done'. 

Cyber criminals are the worst. The Beekeeper springs to mind, as does the ransomware attack on an engineering firm I hired a couple of years ago. On one hand you could blame the victims for not ensuring their computer systems were secure, but on the other hand with exponential growth of the computing industry, is it even possible to make your system absolutely secure? Well yes, if you cut all the wires and lock it in a Faraday cage. Okay, it needs to be secure, but it also needs to be usable, so we have to balance these two requirements and when we do, sometimes security gets short-changed. That's why we've got to wade through these annoying identification protocols when you call most any business about most anything at all.