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2024-04-19 Cyber

911 outage in Nevada, South Dakota, Texas and Nebraska likely caused by a cyber attack

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [193 views ] Top

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The Gray-Hat world has been noticing a lot of I-Net oddities or www.pingdom.com or Threat-Map

Too many happening to be normal, kinda pointing more to a collection of "test or probes" areas for a larger attack in coming months.

Interesting to Note:
Data from the above links seems to show Russia to be immune to issues?
Plus the Threatmap shows a Mass attack from California underway @ 0548 (EDST)

Posted by NN2N1 2024-04-19 05:48|| 2024-04-19 05:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Rural Texas towns report cyberattacks that caused one water system to overflow

Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-19 06:24|| 2024-04-19 06:24|| Front Page Top

#3 So do we think this is jihadis, and so War on Terror, skript kiddies or income-driven ransomware attacks, or non-WoT attacks from Russia, China, or North Korea?

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-19 09:51|| 2024-04-19 09:51|| Front Page Top

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TW - I guess we'll have to wait for the 3rd Act of the play to find out.

Remember Feb. 2024 Both NETGEAR & CISCO routers both had major Firmware updates. The FBI even has a court order to remove malware from hundreds of privately owned routers across the US, and to alter the routers’ settings to prevent reinfection. (Checked your Router security Config lately?)

The Malware infected routers were the small office/home office (SOHO) devices that no longer receive updates because they have reached their End-of-Life.

ALSO, as many have noticed, there have been an abnormal number of Internet connectivity issues in the last 60+/- days.

An example, a recent solar flare was falsely blamed for AT&T and other Cell Phone company outages. The false blame, was proven. Because the solar flare burst was in a NON-Earth direction. Then only a few randomly located spots in the US were affected and at the wrong times.

Posted by 2024-04-19 13:40|| 2024-04-19 13:40|| Front Page Top

TW, in ancient times by modern standards, intelligence folks kept I&W checklists. (Indications and Warnings) The idea was that disparate events, seemingly not connected, when viewed through a macro-strategic perspective, might suggest linkages and motives. In that kind of old school thinking, if you are a threat actor considering some kind of hostile act on the world stage, which will likely require drastic US response, do you see a best case window of opportunity for such action increasing post Nov 5th or decreasing. As Trump seems increasingly likely to win, despite all the odds, wouldn't you therefor begin testing your force-multiplier infrastructure attacks and commando assault unit infiltrations across the border in anticipation of a possible September-October attack before the election, when the Puppet Show would be decimated by election focus and staff exodus? So massive illegals of military age, exploratory cyber attacks on key infrastructure, political disruptions of every flavor, summer of "rage" events, instability of leadership and disruption of financial markets, vulnerable mass communication systems, and even the unreliability of power/water/food delivery systems all attrit any US response.

These may all be unrelated, but as the frequency and synchonicity of such events continues to grow, an Old School 35A/D has a sense of it not being things as normal.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-04-19 14:17|| 2024-04-19 14:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Dear Blank and NoMoreBS:

Thank you so much for explaining! As you, and all here, know, I am only the most accidental of junior analysts, mostly due to what I have learnt here by watching y’all think aloud on the subject. So any and all training is most gratefully received. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2024-04-19 16:57|| 2024-04-19 16:57|| Front Page Top

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