March 16, 2018: Russia is targeting our critical energy infrastructure. This security bulletin is regarding Russia targeting Energy is a TLP white.
https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A
We appreciate the assistance from the agencies allowing us to share this with our clients promptly. (Notes below **** )
Russia is targeting our critical infrastructure. The US InfoSec has partially enabled this by allowing the NSA code to be hacked and the OPM database to be breached. Not to mention facebook, equifax, chase, target, linkedin, etc.
… This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. It also contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and technical details on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Russian government cyber actors on compromised victim networks.
NOTE: please note we have no evidence of anyone specifically targeting a client beyond those we have contacted directly by email or phone call.
All of those incidents, some of which are on-going, pre-date the incidents as described in the bulletin above. Internally we monitor and address individual incidents directly.
If we (Tendenci) detect a direct threat with our security infrastructure at AWS and redundant logging and monitoring. Know that we will contact your team. If it is more global in scope monitor our social media (this blog, tendenci twitter. Further we recognize the importance of protecting your data. And the importance of your privacy.
I will add that there is little doubt in my mind that the InfoWars don’t also extend to purchasing advertising, perhaps through a third party, on mainstream sites like Netflix, Youtube, CNN, FOX, Telemundo, etc…. they just haven’t reported it yet.
We get it. Just please, tell us that you understand it as well? This is a huge expense for us internally and it has the intended result – less innovation and more defense. More resources get tied up to maintain what the client sees as “the normal state of affairs.”
These are the facts of our current reality. We do not have the privilege to ignore reality.
