Jan. 24th, 2022

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The standard "your account is suspended" crap. But as I was scrolling down to the bottom to get to the button to forward it to spoof@paypal.com, I noticed the following bit of text:

π–§π—ˆπ— π–½π—ˆ 𝖨 π—„π—‡π—ˆπ— π—π—π—‚π—Œ π—‚π—Œ π—‡π—ˆπ— 𝖺 π—Œπ—‰π—ˆπ—ˆπ–Ώ 𝖾𝗆𝖺𝗂𝗅?
π–²π—‰π—ˆπ—ˆπ–Ώ π—ˆπ—‹ "π—‰π—π—‚π—Œπ—π—‚π—‡π—€" π–Ύπ—†π–Ίπ—‚π—…π—Œ 𝗍𝖾𝗇𝖽 π—π—ˆ 𝗁𝖺𝗏𝖾 𝗀𝖾𝗇𝖾𝗋𝗂𝖼 π—€π—‹π–Ύπ–Ύπ—π—‚π—‡π—€π—Œ π—Œπ—Žπ–Όπ— π–Ίπ—Œ "𝖣𝖾𝖺𝗋 𝖯𝖺𝗒𝖯𝖺𝗅 𝗆𝖾𝗆𝖻𝖾𝗋". π–€π—†π–Ίπ—‚π—…π—Œ π–Ώπ—‹π—ˆπ—† 𝖯𝖺𝗒𝖯𝖺𝗅 𝗐𝗂𝗅𝗅 π–Ίπ—…π—π–Ίπ—’π—Œ π–Ίπ–½π–½π—‹π–Ύπ—Œπ—Œ π—’π—ˆπ—Ž 𝖻𝗒 π—’π—ˆπ—Žπ—‹ 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗇 π—Œπ—Žπ—‹π—‡π–Ίπ—†π–Ύ 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾𝗇 𝗇𝖺𝗆𝖾.


Here's the amusing part: they didn't address me by my name, just my email address. That would have certainly woken me up if they had my name!
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The group, Cyber Partisans, made the following demands on Twitter:

We have encryption keys, and we are ready to return Belarusian Railroad's systems to normal mode. Our conditions:
πŸ”Ί Release of the 50 political prisoners who are most in need of medical assistance.
πŸ”ΊPreventing the presence of Russian troops on the territory of #Belarus.


Belarus borders Ukraine and is "undergoing joint military exercises with Russia", i.e. Russian troops are swarming through its country, staging and ready to invade Ukraine at a moment's notice. The Cyber Partisans have thrown quite a monkey wrench into those plans by completely disabling the rail network!

In addition to encrypting the system's servers, they destroyed all the backups, which I guess were stored in a SAN online. Bad design there, fellas! The Partisans said that the network had many entry points and was poorly isolated from the internet.

Sometimes hactivists do a good job! I hope these people practices amazingly good operational security (OpSec), because if Putin or Lukeshenko find them, they are dead.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/hactivists-say-they-hacked-belarus-rail-system-to-stop-russian-military-buildup/

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