How Privacy Violations, Fines and Economic Sanctions Create Darker Opportunities
summary
Real incident reports show sanctioned regimes fund operations with breached data, planted Bitcoin miners, and targeted remote GIS archives where 650 MB GIS files can’t exfiltrate because of tiny bandwidth. Casework includes embassy accounts protected by password 123456 leading to staged extortion (initial demand €25k then escalation to €50 million), ransomware tied to GDPR fines, and simulated exercises that cascade from telecom outage to capsized ships and blackouts. Recommendations: anonymize collected PII, stage recovery partners, and keep contingency cryptocurrency ready.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:38Who am I
- 1:45Challenges
- 1:59EU GDPR
- 4:47North Korea
- 8:07Europe
- 10:34Consequences
- 12:27EU Cyber Warfare Exercise
- 18:30The European City
- 21:35ZEC
- 22:35EU Companies
- 23:05I dont want to be in jail
- 23:20Solutions
- 24:02AWP 2017
- 24:56Not everyone is perfect
- 25:29NSAs response
- 25:43Basic security testing
- 26:53Leverage Luxembourg
- 27:42Keep it Simple
- 28:47US Search
- 29:18Malware Information Sharing Platform
- 31:21risk profile
- 33:13questions
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