Ronald MizenReporter Apr 22, 2021 Hackers look to team up with short sellers https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/hackers-look-to-team-up-with-short-sellers-20210422-p57lep A hacker group that hit headlines after making a series of charitable donations with its ill-gotten gains is pitching a new product to sharemarket traders looking to cash in on cyber heists. Security experts said the new revenue stream could make hackers and dodgy traders huge profits and be difficult for law enforcement to prove. Ransomware group DarkSide announced this week it was looking to work with traders to punish target companies that failed to pay up. “Our team and partners encrypt many companies that are trading on the Nasdaq and other stock exchanges,” DarkSide said in a post on its website. “If the company refuses to pay, we are ready to provide information before publication, so it would be possible to earn in the reduction price of shares.” In Australia, DarkSide claimed credit for a reported hit on coffee roaster Segafredo Zanetti. The company was later delisted from its website and has not responded to repeated requests for comment. After a busy 2020, DarkSide had been quiet for a few months while it likely undertook a fresh ransomware campaign. “I believe DarkSide is going to start seeing a bit of a resurgence in the number of victims coming online,” Mr Westwood-Hill said. “I would not be overly surprised to start seeing their leaks on the dark web very soon.” Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow said tactics used by threat actors such as DarkSide to extort payment from their victims were becoming more extreme, but the latest pitch to short-sellers was something entirely new. “Whether their intention is to charge for this information or simply to give it away in order to pressure future victims into paying quickly is not clear,” Mr Callow said. “Whatever the case, this clearly demonstrates the need for governments to take speedy and decisive action to tackle the problem. If they do not, the situation will invariably continue to worsen.” Emsisoft analysis shows more than 1300 organisations had data exfiltrated and released online by ransomware groups in 2020. “Of course, this only represents the organisations that refused to pay,” Mr Callow said. The Australian Cyber Security Centre publicly advises companies never to pay a ransom as there is no guarantee cyber criminals will decrypt files once the ransom is paid, and there is a chance that files may not be recoverable.
It's an interesting premise that there is a lot of money to be made through short selling and economic vandalism ( not me ,I'm old knackered and can't even get arrested these days ), it reminds me of 911 when ( I lost a fair bit of money ) when there was a very pronounced drop in the dollar for a day or two before .
Any connection between 9/11 and short selling has been thoroughly and fully debunked. And your assertion specifically can be checked by anyone in about 2 minutes on the internet. As you can see the USD actually went up against the GBP and EUR and down just slightly against the JPY on Sep 10th, and if you look at the two days before the USD was essentially flat. So please, just stop with that. Memory's a tricky little fucker, especially when people let themselves live in an echo chamber. Sad when we live in a time when it's trivially easy to verify fantastical assertions and folks can't be bothered to do so.
Dollar index was 121 july 5 open was 116 sep6 open was 114 sep10 December US Dollar Index Historical Prices Charts - Historical Commodity Futures Charts' : ICE Futures (tradingcharts.com) I stand by what I said .
"Memory's a tricky little fucker," I think you meant that your memory is a tricky little fucker , I suggest people check out the above chart of dollar index and decide for themselves.
The brain's a fascinating thing, as displayed here. It's both unreliable in memory and hugely resistant to having that pointed out. Our friend @henry76 started out with a memory of (my bolding for emphasis). When it's pointed out that in fact over the 2 days prior to 9/11 the dollar was flat with actual inconvertible proof in the form of the actual currency levels on those days, @henry76's brain decided not to take the rational approach and realize that it might be mistaken. Instead, it decided that "a day or two before" really meant "a month or two before" or maybe "a week or two before" because it turns out cherry picking those times supported the flawed premis. It also decided that switching from the quotes provided to the dollar index would somehow obscure the fact that it was using quotes from 2 months and 1 week before 9/11 to back up what it now knew was the incorrect assertion of "a very pronounced drop in the dollar for a day or two before" 9/11. Glaringly missing from this new dollar index data are the actual numbers for "a day or two before", even though @henry76 must have seen them. Did his brain realize they disproved his original assertion, and tricked him into omitting them? Did he affirmatively decide not to include them, but then immediately forget he did? And it appears, given the smug remark @henry76 felt the need to throw in after this display, that @henry76 himself is blissfully unaware of what his brain is doing in his name! Now there's no question of what actually happened (or in this case didn't happen) to the USD "a day or two before" 9/11. The only question is how and why @henry76's brain is so resistant to admitting that it misremembered? Imagine how damaging that resistance to a fact based reality is in hundreds of aspects of every day life? Fascinating demonstration @henry76, thanks.
Old subconscious still at it, isn't it. I feel for you @henry76, you seem to have very little agency in your life. Grab at least a little of that back and show us all "the chart" for "a day or two before" 9/11. Come on, I know you can do it!
Dollar index was 121 july 5 open was 116 sep6 open was 114 sep10 Consider it done , no need for your spurious charts about individual currencies , when your talking about the dollar, the dollar index the most pertinent , like I said before , stop boring us with your anal personalityand look at the chart. Further more , "lack of agency " , this phrase doesn't mean anything to anybody accept you , your not communicating with anybody but yourself , the only person your impressing with your phrases that try too hard is ... yourself , so congratulations, I'm sure your a wonderfully eloquent legend in your own mind , though I bet few read your windy boring diatribe from above , I know I didn't .
Dollar index was 121 july 5 open was 116 sep6 open was 114 sep10 December US Dollar Index Historical Prices Charts - Historical Commodity Futures Charts' : ICE Futures (tradingcharts.com) I stand by what I said .The brain's a fascinating thing, as displayed here. It's both unreliable in memory and hugely resistant to having that pointed out. Our friend @henry76 started out with a memory of a very pronounced drop in the dollar for a day or two before .(my bolding for emphasis). When it's pointed out that in fact over the 2 days prior to 9/11 the dollar was flat with actual inconvertible proof in the form of the actual currency levels on those days, @henry76's brain decided not to take the rational approach and realize that it might be mistaken. Instead, it decided that "a day or two before" really meant "a month or two before" or maybe "a week or two before" because it turns out cherry picking those times supported the flawed premis. It also decided that switching from the quotes provided to the dollar index would somehow obscure the fact that it was using quotes from 2 months and 1 week before 9/11 to back up what it now knew was the incorrect assertion of "a very pronounced drop in the dollar for a day or two before" 9/11. Glaringly missing from this new dollar index data are the actual numbers for "a day or two before", even though @henry76 must have seen them. Did his brain realize they disproved his original assertion, and tricked him into omitting them? Did he affirmatively decide not to include them, but then immediately forget he did? And it appears, given the smug remark @henry76 felt the need to throw in after this display, that @henry76 himself is blissfully unaware of what his brain is doing in his name! Now there's no question of what actually happened (or in this case didn't happen) to the USD "a day or two before" 9/11. The only question is how and why @henry76's brain is so resistant to admitting that it misremembered? Imagine how damaging that resistance to a fact based reality is in hundreds of aspects of every day life? Fascinating demonstration @henry76, thanks. Last edited: Saturday at 2:00 PM YAWNNN!