Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit.
Operationally this week it has been the usual operational blend and tempo.
In the high-level this week:
Australia passed Magnitsky-style Thematic Sanctions laws - in the guise of its Autonomous Sanctions Amendment - it includes a clause for "caused, assisted with or were complicit in significant cyber activity" - ‘Magnitsky’ sanctions targeted those responsible for human rights violations or corruption and this shows where you can’t arrest them governments want to sanction - the net result is the intelligence understanding will be quite key.
US publicly acknowledged it took offensive action to disrupt ransomware operations - General Nakasone from NSA has said:
“The first thing we have to do is to understand the adversary and their insights better than we’ve ever understood them before,”.. “Before, during and since, with a number of elements of our government, we have taken actions and we have imposed costs”
What hap…