Hacker ransoms Virginia med records

May 3, 2009
Summary

On Thursday, April 30, the secure site for the Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) was replaced with a $US10M ransom demand:

"I have your shit! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of 35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :(For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password."

The site, https://www.pmp.dhp.virginia.gov/pmpwebcenter/login.aspx appears to have been entirely disabled and is presently unavailable.

The linked file provides the full ransom message.

The PMP is used by pharmacists and others to discover prescription drug abuse.

The PMP declined to comment, although when contacted, appeared to be aware of the issue, instantly referring inquiries to the director of the DHP, who is presently unavailable.

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From its home page:

ATTENTION VIRGINIA

I have your shit! In *my* possession, right now, are 8,257,378 patient records and a total of35,548,087 prescriptions. Also, I made an encrypted backup and deleted the original. Unfortunately for Virginia, their backups seem to have gone missing, too. Uhoh :(

For $10 million, I will gladly send along the password. You have 7 days to decide. If by the end of 7 days, you decide not to pony up, I'll go ahead and put this baby out on the market and accept the highest bid. Now I don't know what all this shit is worth or who would pay for it, but I'm bettin' someone will. Hell, if I can't move the prescription data at the very least I can find a buyer for the personal data (name,age,address,social security #, driver's license #).

Now I hear tell the Fucking Bunch of Idiots ain't fond of payin out, but I suggest that policy be turned right the fuck around. When you boys get your act together, drop me a line at hackingforprofit@yahoo.com and we can discuss the details such as account number, etc.

Until then, have a wonderful day, I know I will ;)

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I think he will be caught soon.

Gerald

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FBI Cybert efforts

FBI Cybert efforts

"computer and internet protocol address verifier," or CIPAV, is designed to infiltrate a target’s computer and gather a wide range of information, which it secretly sends to an FBI server in eastern Virginia. The FBI’s use of the spyware surfaced in 2007 when the bureau used it to track e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington state high school to a 15-year-old student.

...CIPAV’s capabilities, but an FBI affidavit in the 2007 case indicate it gathers and reports a computer’s IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer’s registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.

After sending the information to the FBI, the CIPAV settles into a silent "pen register" mode, in which it lurks on the target computer and monitors its internet use, logging the IP address of every server to which the machine connects.

In a separate February 2007, Cincinnati-based investigation of hackers who’d successfully targeted an unnamed bank, the documents indicate the FBI’s efforts may have been detected. An FBI agent became alarmed when the hacker he was chasing didn’t get infected with the spyware after visiting the CIPAV-loaded website. Instead, the hacker "proceeded to visit the site 29 more times," according to a summary of the incident. "In these instances, the CIPAV did not deliver its payload because of system incompatibility."

SOURCE:

FBI Cyber Action Teams, or CATs, are small, highly-trained teams of FBI agents, analysts, and computer forensics and malicious code experts who travel the world on a moment’s notice to respond to fast-moving cyber threats. Read howteams sent to Morocco and Turkey helped catch the authors of the malicious "Zotob" code.

The FBI seems to have tne ability to track and trace perps or suspects on the Internet and can

penetrate some computer systems and collect data.

Their CIPAV is simmilar to our "Bot Surveillance Units" in the data collected,

but from the info released the CIPAV operate using defferent methods and 

actually hack the perps computer. 

We have tracked Backdoors from terrorist PCs

to the USA, We ended the surveillance when we

were sure it was an Intelligence gathering operatioon.

The FBI's CAT teams are on 24 hour call and located 

in the North West. We have worked with them

several times, fulfilling requests and reporting

Intel. Contrary to their PR Hype they are NOT

easy to work with.

They had asked for the Technical details of

our "Bot Surveillance Units", which we declined.

We were asked for a powerpoint about our capabilities,

We responded with a PP about the Actionable 

Intellegence we have reported to Intelligence Agencys

and operations we have run against the terrorists.

I was told there were "NO complaints" about the

Intel we have reported, "No complaints  at all"...

We have contacts at the FBI, NSA, CIA DIA, DHS, Socom

and a hand full of other alphebet soup names.

The CAT teams seem to be underfunded,

And still rely on Physical surveillance

instead of Cyber surveillance. Thats to be expected

based on the FBI's history.

And the CAT teams are run by some of  the

best minds at the FBI. They are still expanding

the concept and developing their paradigm.

Paradigm Intel says :

The young Turks know they have been given  Ferrari's

But the old men won't let them take it out of FIRST gear.

Gerald

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

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Paki and Taliban colusion.

Paki and Taliban colusion.

By Gerald Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

05.05.09

Is the Pakistan Government on the verge of take over by the Taliban?

The Paki Army has 250,000 troops on the border with India.

And the Paki Army may have had a hand in the latest terrorist

attacks on India.

The Taliban are a hundred miles or so from the capital.

Could the 50,000 Taliban terrorist take on the Paki 500,000

equipped Army and defeat the Paki Army?

Is the threat to the Paki Government real or a ruse

to collect Billions in US anti-terrorist funds?

The wild card in all this is the Paki Army,

Will the Army accept the Taliban as rulers of

Paki? Will the Army pull a coup and seize control of

the Paki Government?

Or would the Paki Army stand aside and let

the Taliban take control of the Government.

The Paki Governmment has ceded over 50%

of Pakistan to the Taliban.

Is the Taliban threat real in Paki or is it just

part of the Great Game to extort Billions out

of the USA using the Nukes as a red herring?

If the Taliban were to seize control of the Paki

Government it might simplify the policy of USA

towards Paki and their proxy army the Taliban.

If the Taliban take control of the Paki Government

they would not be considered as allies.

And would open the way for inserting ground troops into Pakistan

and take on the Taliban directly.

A second Iraq operation, not desirable but eminently

simpler policy to deal with.

No more safe havens for al Qaeda or the Taliban.

And all of Paklistan would be an open fire zone

against the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Paradigm Intel points to a ruse by the Paki Government

to extort billions of USD for alleged anti-terrorist funding.

The call is ripe with danger for an erroneous decision or error,

regarding the real threat of the Taliban to Paki.

Right now the Taliban have a Government sponsored safe

haven in Pakistan, if they could seize control it

would end their status of any safe havens.

Some thing smells in Pakistan the Paradigm doesn't

play out logically.

The Paki Government makes noises about the eminent

threat of the Taliban but does nothing.

And Paki feigns helplessness and incompetence.

While setting on 250,000 troops on an unthreatened border.

Paradigm Intel says Paki actions indicate they don't

view the Taliban as a real threat.

If the Taliban does take control it will simplify

American policy towards Pakistan.

The question of Nukes is problematic.

But can be dealt with.

Gerald 

Internet Anthropologist

Let the Taliban burn up Paki.

I just learned my estimate of 

the size of the Paki army is not

500,000 but 700,000.

If the Paki Army can't beat the Taliban

with 50,000 terrorist, with an Army of

700,000 trained equipted Paki troops

they let the Taliban burn Paki.

No training, no funds, till the top

3 heads are on sticks, Binny,

big Z and Omar.

.If they can't do the Taliban

with 700,000 troops,

USA can't help with that level of incompentency.

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Rebuttal from Source Inside the Belt Way:

".........Rashid has the best inside contacts in the Paki government but minimal access to the military.  He is a nationalist Punjabi that is correctly concerned about the spreading control of the Pashtuns.  I generally give his reports good marks.
 
Pakistan is essentially bankrupt, we have agreed to cover the military payroll there that is our main leverage and the reason there has been no takeover.  The Paki military is huge but very little is combat effective, maybe 10%.  It would be at best compared to our National Guard.  30% of the active duty officer corps have full time jobs in business and government.  The rest manage parks, rental properties, nearly all the golf courses, polo and cricket grounds, that are all owned by the Army.
 
When fighting is needed they have "paramilitary" forces which are like our SWAT teams, local police that are paid mercenaries for quick reaction forces because the regular army can't fight.
 
About 20% of the Paki Army are Pashtun, the rest are Punjabis that are generally scared to death of all Pashtun, even their comrades.
 
All in all a very unstable environment."

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Response:

In your hypothesis the Paki army can generate

an army of actual Military Troops numbering

around 70,000, ie 10%.

Thats not enough troops to do the Taliban.

Paki is part of NATO, that would seem to be

a possible soultion to raise enough troops

to "DO" the Taliban.

Your hypothesis further supports the use

of drones as a key weapon against the 

Taliban.

70,000 Army troops against 50,000

insurgents gives an edge to the 

insurgents, the deciding factor

maybe how ISI weighs in.

So far they haven't been able

to find the key 3.

Binny

Big Z 

Omar.

Paradigm Intel suggest ISI

elements are supporting

the Taliban.

Paradigm Intel will further spotlight

Paki's intent based on the Armys

actions after they recieve the 

"Emergency Funding".

Is the big push on the Taliban

a floor show to gain the funding,

or a real recognition of the Taliban

threat. Actions and time will point

to the truth.

G

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upside down

Paki looks like its about to fall to the Taliban

and Obama has forced the American auto industry

into bankruptcy, the pillar of American Industrial

strength, and he rewarded the banks.!

I got problems with this.

The Paradigm is jumbled.

G

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The "Future Cyber Soldier of 2030"

"when they go on patrol in Iraq. But by 2030, their uniforms will be packed with nano-antenna arrays, capable of communicating with everything from drones to satellites. The soldiers will all be Hulk-strong, and Spiderman-agile, thanks to their nanotech-based exoskeletons. “Neural prosthetics” and “smart drugs” will make them battlefield geniuses. On-board computers will let them understand every language — and every cultural reference — as if they were natives. Naturally, their flexible, nanofiber uniforms will be all-but-impervious to bullets, flame, and lasers, too.

That’s the thinking, at least, over at the Soldier Research Design and Engineering Center in Natick, MA. Researchers there have spent years of effort — and tens of millions of dollars — to give tomorrow’s soldiers high-tech supersuits. The results have been… well, less than super. One such program, “Future Force Warrior,” was supposed to deploy next year. Now: never mind. A simpler effort, to give G.I.s digital maps and software radios, “Land Warrior,” had to fight a rear-guard action within the Army to keep from getting canceled.

So now the folks at Natick are starting over again. They recently released a white paper, on the “Future Soldier 2030 Initiative.” It’s not official U.S. Army doctrine or anything. “Nor is it intended to answer every question raised about warfare in 2030. Our intent is to stir imaginations, and start a dialogue about how best to equip the soldier,” the paper says."

SOURCE: Permalink

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The "Future Cyber Soldier of 2030"

Our contribution.

By Gerald Internet AQnthropologist Think Tank

05.05.09

These "uniforms will be packed with nano-antenna arrays, capable of communicating with everything from drones to satellites. The soldiers will all be Hulk-strong, and Spiderman-agile, thanks to their nanotech-based exoskeletons. “Neural prosthetics” and “smart drugs” will make them battlefield geniuses. On-board computers will let them understand every language — and every cultural reference — as if they were natives. Naturally, their flexible, nanofiber uniforms will be all-but-impervious to bullets, flame, and lasers, too." troops are WWW active connected to a squad of dedecitated cyber Masters by voice,video on either the helmet screen or retina, or even deep bone transmiter.

One of the Cyber squad ID the local Taiban cheifs and his webmasters.

He scans both the leaders PC and the PC and server for the webmaster, he calls up a phalanax

of Bots on call should it be nessary to run a dos attack on any of the above mentioned targets.

To shut off any outside communication on demand.

He also taps all local cell and satlite traffic,

Members monitor emails, IMS and cell traffic for any mentions of the local area.

Which are transmitted in summary to the troop in the field.

The field trooper questions a suspect, and finds a list of paswords 

and screen names, this data is fed directly into a Bot Surveillance Unit,

And URLs are texted back to the cyber Trooper as the Bots locate forums

and blogs world wide that accept any of the passwords and screen names.

The cyber trooper reviews and searches each url for posts from the suspect

in the field, And a cyber trooper whispers into the Field troopers ear

what this "suspect" most recent post on the Terrorist forum says, while

the field trooper is staring into the suspects eyes.

Another cyber trooper searches the "suspects cell phone" remotely

when the field trooper calls the cyber squad on the suspects phone.

They project a list of the names in the cell phone call list

cross referenced  to known terrorist in the local area on to the Fields troopers retina.

And then over lay a map with the Field Troopers locations and the physical locations of all the

cell phone numbers in the Suspects cell phone.

There is also a cyber heavy weapons squad on call for 

any attacks on the field troopers www connections or his helmet PC.

They monitor all traffic into and out of the helmet PC and track it

to its destination and ID owner.

A Cyber heavy weapons squad has enough punch to

take down a Web node by themselves.

And the capability to launch multiple Dos attacks

on demand.

Or penetrate and take down a PC or server that 

will take a week to fix,

Another cyber trooper is monitoring 56 search engines

all blogs, Terrorist forums and the news for any mention of the 

field troopers local or targets in his area.

Only filtered data is fed to the Field trooper,

Physical locations of cell phones of terrorists in 

his local, location of webmasters and his PC 

Or turning off the terrorist leaders cell phone

at the start of the Field troopers assult on his

position.

A world view of their front line and control of it.

I'll return to play with this some more.

G

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

Over Watch for Cyber Troops

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Playing for Change

Were all Playing for Change,

G

Janet Jackson showed a boob

Janet Jackson showed a boob, 9/16 of a second 

and its $550,000 fine.

When will America over come this

boob fetish?

They are just boobs, no one was

struck blind.

All the kids saw them when they

were feeding. They SUCKLE.

They have seen them.

Whom are "they" protecting?

This is a Juvenile psychogicial obession,

a Country has with a Boob.

That may explain why USA elects

so many Boobs to Congress.

G

Anthropologist

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Our educated readers

Our educated readers

G

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11 days to wipe Israel out

Iranian Army General Commander Ataollah Salehi: It Will Take Us 11 Days "To Wipe Israel Out of Existence"

To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2099.htm. 

"Nothing can prevent Iranian missiles from targeting the heart of Israel, if Iran is subjected to a military strike by Israel. This was the response of the Iranian military commanders to the Israeli statements about a possible military strike against Iran, because of its insistence on obtaining nuclear energy. Yet an [Israeli] attack seems improbable to the Iranians, because Tel Aviv does not have the ability to go through a war with Tehran."

General Ataollah Salehi, general commander of the Iranian army: "The truth is that Israel does not have the courage to attack us. If we are subjected to any attack by Israel, I do not think we will need more than 11 days to wipe Israel out of existence."

Gerald

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3D TV

Plasma Hologram:

Fire laser pulses into the air in just the right way, and it ionizes — creating a ball of glowing plasma in

empty space.

The U.S.,the military has taken an interest in these plasma “flashpoints” – initially to form instant defensive screens.

The Japanese looking to use it for advertizing.

SOURCE: Permalink

PARADIGM INTEL:

Take a look at your NEW TV, IN 3D.

This demonstration is equalivant to

the firsts attempts at Television broadcasting.

G.

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More on Paki Paradigm:

More on Paki Paradigm:

From Email:

The key threat to Pakistan's civilian government is actually the Paki Army.  Another military coup will occur if the Taliban isn't neutralized and pushed back.  Neither we nor the Army, nor the civilian government, want a coup.  But Army leadership is better than Taliban leadership.
 
So we've put the Paki Army on notice that their inaction against the Taliban would force us to conclude that they want to rule again and if that happens, we will no longer consider the subnational FATA as a legal and integral part of Pakistan.  For now, we need a legal mandate to do more in the FATA against the Taliban.
 
However, the Taliban are thinking ahead and realize they have to move into Buner, the refugee camps around Quetta, and Karachi in order to escape the UAV attacks and operate freely again.  
 
An underpinning to all this is that Pakistan is bankrupt and the IMF will pull out and make no more loans if the Army takes over.  We will have to finance, with Saudi help, the Paki's.  Something which we are ill prepared to do.  Hovering in the shadows are the Chinese ready to make massive financial loans to Pakistan.  There are massive influences on Pakistan, and we are doing our best with a clever and often distancing and always chaotic mix of leaderships there. 
 
We are preparing a massive offensive in S Afghanistan to eradicate the poppy/heroin financing of the Taliban.  The Taliban are going to stand and fight and are building the logistics to do so.  This campaign season will sort out the future, whom ever prevails sets the course for the Afpak theater.  It will be a noisy and bloody next eight months.
 
gandalf 

Paki Paradigm Intel.

Paki Paradigm Intel.

By Gerald: Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

05.02.09

For six years and 10 Biollion dollars

Paki has fought a loosing war against

the Taliban.

In the process the Paki Gov.

has ceded 60% of Pakistan to

the Taliban.

The Taliban has broken 6 of the

past 6 peace treatys the Paki Government

has made with the Taliban.

The Taliban and the Paki Government

have both begged the USA to end the 

war of drones against the Taliban.

The Paki Government has a standing

Army of over 500,000 troops and

modern weapons and continually

loose against the 50,000 Taliban

trained farmers.

ISI Paki Intelligence arm has

been caught again and again 

working with the Taliban.

The attack on India.

A Paki Army General has

recommended an end to the 

drone strikes and a cease

fire with the Taliban.Permalink

When USA invaded Afghan

going after the Taliban who

were shielding Binny, the Paki

Government was given the option

to join the fight against the Paki

proxy army, the Taliban or face

invasion like Afghan.

And the Paki Government just

haven't been able to catch their

little proxy army, the Taliban.

No matter how hard they try or

how much money the US Government

gives the Paki Government.

Jeeze how could this have gone

so wrong?

The demand for the three heads

just hasn't been big enough yet.

Binny 3 Billion for his head.

"Big Z" 2 billion.

Omar 2 billion dollars.

Do they plan ceding the rest of 

Pakistan to the Taliban?

Does the Paki Government see

an advantage in giving the Taliban

access to the Nukes?

Or is the Paki Government just

playing brinkmanship with the 

Taliban for the Anti-Terrorist Billions $. The Great Game.

Or is the Taliban just a red herring for the 

the Paki Government?

Gerald

Anthropologist

What percent of the dead troops

in Paki are actually Army Troops?

Bet the per centage is low.

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Binny dead

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Monday that the whereabouts of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden remained a mystery and there was a suspicion that he could be dead.

DEAD:....

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-bin-laden-image.html

Speaking to international media, Zardari said US officials had told him that they had no trace of the Al-Qaeda chief, although they habitually say he is most likely in Pakistan.

Pakistan's own intelligence agencies were no wiser, either, Zardari said.

"There is no news," the president said. "They obviously feel that he does not exist anymore but that's not confirmed, we can't confirm that."

Al Jazeera aired excerpts of an audio recording in March in which the speaker's voice sounded like earlier messages from bin Laden, who has eluded all efforts to catch him since Al-Qaeda carried out the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

Bin Laden, if he is still alive, turned 52 on March 10, but he is known to suffer from ill-health.

There have been reports that he had died of natural causes in the past, but they have never been corroborated, and security analysts believe intelligence agencies monitoring jihadi websites on the Internet would have picked up some chatter.

SOURCE:

Of course it may hurt morale if Binny were

dead, and slow recruitment.

G

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Bin laden, comatose:

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most secure distribution of Windows XP ever

It’s the most secure distribution version of Windows XP ever produced by Microsoft: More than 600 settings are locked down tight, and critical security patches can be installed in an average of 72 hours instead of 57 days.  The only problem is, you have to join the Air Force to get it.

The Air Force persuaded Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to provide it with a secure Windows configuration that saved the service about $100 million in contract costs and countless hours of maintenance. At a congressional hearing this week on cybersecurity, Alan Paller, research director of the Sans Institute, shared the story as a template for how the government could use its massive purchasing power to get companies to produce more secure products. And those could eventually be available to the rest of us.

Security experts have been arguing for this “trickle-down” model for years.  But rather than wield its buying power for the greater good, the government has long wimped out and taken whatever vendors served them. If the Air Force case is a good judge, however, things might be changing.

Threat Level spoke with former CIO of the Air Force, John Gilligan, to get the details. Continue Reading “Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government” »

.I thought Vista was more secure?:

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