Before leaving on a trip, Sam Rubin, a vice president of the Crypsis Group, a cybersecurity consulting firm, advises all travelers, regardless of the size of their employer, to make sure their laptops are encrypted...

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MCLEAN, VA – As cyber attacks on government and private sector networks continue to expand and evolve, The Crypsis Group announced today that it has appointed a leading digital crime investigations practitioner as a senior director of its consulting team at its Washington, DC-area headquarters.

The group was also known for meticulously encrypting its victims’ data, manually from file to file; changing file names to “I’m sorry”; demanding high ransom payments in Bitcoin; and giving victims only a week to pay before they made their data permanently inaccessible, according to major security firms like Symantec, the Crypsis Group and others.

“The extent and volume of information that they were able to obtain in these subpoenas goes beyond the capabilities of an individual,” Sam Rubin, a vice president of the Crypsis Group cybersecurity firm, says in Lake’s report. “It’s set up in a systematic manner, to be shared by what appears to be a team.”

The scale of the operation, as well as the targets, suggest this was a state operation. “The extent and volume of information that they were able to obtain in these subpoenas goes beyond the capabilities of an individual,” said Sam Rubin, a vice president of...

“Rooney and the Crypsis team are called in after a cyber incident. It often starts with a call from an attorney who has determined that an investigation is required. Crypsis runs proprietary programs and deploys their team of expert consultants to see how a hacker gained access to the network and where the IP address originated. They also determine how long the hacker retained access to the system and what information they had access to. That report is passed back to the attorney to work on remediation of the issues to stop a future attack.”

“Bret Padres, who investigated PR Newswire’s breaches while at Stroz Friedberg and was later hired by
the government in connection with the case after he became CEO of the Crypsis Group, took the stand
to provide further expert testimony. He said his team installed a “sniffer” on PR Newswire’s systems and found that its login page had been tampered with to send user credentials to a computer in Ukraine.”

“If there had been two-factor authentication in place, many of these attacks would not have been possible,” says Sam Rubin, vice president of Crypsis Group, a security advisory firm hired by Broidy. “Securing the human, as they say, is always going to be the weakest link.”