The Woman Who Squashed Terrorists: When An Embassy Gets Hacked
summary
Embassy email compromise in 2014 reveals a rootkit visible in packet captures, an unpatched residential modem with password 123456, and extortion that escalates from MoneyGram requests to threats demanding 50 million USD and a bombed national landmark. Investigation traces mail forwards and a Yandex account to an insider, droning and diplomatic friction complicate response, the incident lasts about 2.5 months and ends with a reassignment that does not survive.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:23Background
- 0:55The main portions of the incident
- 1:32How the incident started
- 3:02What is an embassy
- 3:50Saudi Arabian embassy hack
- 4:33rootkit
- 5:45NATO
- 6:06Yemen
- 8:22Why Chris was chosen
- 10:07How it started
- 12:11Who sent it
- 12:55The suspicion
- 14:27Friends of Isis
- 15:30The Email
- 15:48The Diplomatic Corps
- 18:34The Secretary
- 19:54The Kerr House
- 22:05Sherlock Switch
- 26:03Insider
- 29:00Rewards
- 30:12Lessons Learned
- 33:21Questions
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