The inner workings of ransomware that you found out were fascinating. We recorded our interview yesterday morning. Last year, he was a lead reporter on the team that won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles about Russian intelligence operations around the world. Schwirtz worked in The New York Times' Russia bureau from 2006 to 2012. These cybercriminals and many others are believed to be operating from Russia. Schwirtz has also reported on the company that attacked JBS, which is called REvil - R-E-V-I-L. They were outed as the attackers of Colonial Pipeline, they went dark. DarkSide pulled in millions of dollars in ransom payments each month after. These communications offered what he described as an extraordinary glimpse into the internal workings of a Russian-speaking gang that had become the face of global cybercrime. Michael Schwirtz is an investigative reporter at The New York Times who gained access to secret communications from the cybercriminal operation DarkSide that attacked Colonial Pipeline. My guest got an inside look at how the new breed of ransomware attackers operate. Similar ransomware attacks have been waged on many companies, large and small, and on hospitals, the police and cities. Ransomware attacks have disrupted the flow of gas and the supply of meat in just the past few weeks after Colonial Pipeline and JBS, the meat processing company, had their computer systems held hostage for ransom.
