In late September 2021, the U.S. Department of Treasury (DoT) levied sanctions against the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Suex for its part in facilitating the laundering of transactions from at …
No More Ransom Saves Victims Nearly €1 billion Over 5 Years
No More Ransom, a company that looks to prevent ransomware victims from paying millions of dollars to malicious hacking groups, has allegedly saved victims more than €1 billion over the past five …
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Ransomware: The Present we Deserve?
The scourge of ransomware is the inevitable result of decades of schizophrenia about our relationship with information technology and security. Treating this problem in the same fashion as we have …
Dark Side Reports Closing Shop: What’s the Future for Ransomware Gangs?
The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline revealed how disruptive this malware can be when it impacts civilian critical infrastructure. The successful shutdown of 5,500 miles of pipeline …
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C-Suite Considerations Regarding Current Geopolitical Tensions
I've professionally tracked geopolitical events for my entire adult life, starting as a Navy Intelligence Officer in 1982. Now at OODA I continue this professional watching of geopolitical events …
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Wallstreetbets’ Denial of Hedge-Funding Hack Could Slow DeFi Boom
Last month’s market anarchy, where two-million-plus (at the time), day-trading individual investors unleashed the peer-to-peer power of social media to crush some of Wall Street’s top hedge funds, may …
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What CEOs Need To Know About Bitcoin: Including potential new business models to consider
Bitcoin is the most famous crypto currency, with good reason. It was the first to leverage the new concept of a blockchain to enable a distributed, but trusted ledger, which for the first time in …
Blockchain transactions confirm murky and interconnected ransomware scene
Chainalysis, a blockchain investigations firm, published a new report today that confirms cybercrime groups who perpetrate ransomware attacks are interconnected. According to Chainalysis's findings, …
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Is Digital Advertising the ‘Mother of All Money Laundries?’
With media credibility watchdog NewsGuard reporting that over 1,600 top brands ran thousands of ads on sites that promoted false claims ahead of the 2020 Election and fueled the Capitol riot, the …
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The OODAcast: A guide to our first forty episodes
Matt Devost and I started the OODAcast in March 2020 as a way of highlighting insights and lessons learned from leaders and decision-makers in our network. At the time of this writing we have posted …
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