Brain Cipher: What happens when national infrastructure comes under strike?

Send us Fan MailIndonesia, June 2024 - 210 critical government agencies were crippled in one fell swoop. Immigration services were in disarray; customs officers locked out of critical systems and travellers left stranded in airport and ferry terminals facing delays that would continue for a full week.The culprit? Brain Cipher, a ransomware group barely a week old, which demanded a huge sum of $8M from Indonesia’s National Data Centre, bringing local government services to their knees. The chaos that followed lingers as a potent reminder of the widespread disruption across an entire nation that can stem from a single attack.Join Group-IB’s Gary Ruddell and Nick Palmer as they talk to Jennifer Soh, Cyber Investigation Lead for APAC at Group-IB, exploring what motivates cyber criminals to target national infrastructure, and what happens when the pillars that hold up our modern digital society - from government and defence to energy- are struck by cyber-attacks.Episode links:Group-IB's Top 10 Masked ActorsDeciphering the Brain Cipher RansomwarePatch or Peril: A Veeam vulnerability incidentBy understanding who these actors are and how they operate, you can better anticipate threats and protect yourself in an increasingly hostile digital world.Subscribe to learn more about Group-IB's top 10 Masked Actors  - and stay one step ahead in the fight against cybercrime.FOLLOW GROUP-IBGroup-IB Threat Intelligence on X:   https://www.x.com/GroupIB_TIGroup-IB on X:  https://www.x.com/GroupIBGroup-IB on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/group-ibGroup-IB on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groupibHQ/ Group-IB on Instagram: ...