Credit to Author: Daniel Lunghi| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000
We recently found that an MSI installer built by the National Information Technology Board (NITB), a Pakistani government entity, delivered a Shadowpad sample, suggesting a possible supply-chain attack.
[This is Part II of a story published here last week on reporting that went into a new Hulu documentary series on the 2015 Ashley Madison hack.] It was around 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 19, when I received a message through the contact form on KrebsOnSecurity.com that the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com had been hacked. The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days.
As a young girl, I had dreams of becoming a chef when I grew up, but there was one problem—I despised berries. A family member, aware of my aversion, pointed out that being a chef would require me to taste everything, including berries. Looking back…