Jack Cable, Stanford student and cyber whiz, aims to crowdsource ransomware details
“The remedy is that I make all the data public, and I also manually approve the reports, and people are required to share in a public way,” such as documentation or a screenshot, he said. It’s not “surefire,” but there are safeguards, Cable said. He doesn’t worry about running afoul of law enforcement efforts — the Justice Department notably recovered $2 million worth of cryptocurrency that Colonial Pipeline paid to DarkSide ransomware operators, in part by tracking a bitcoin ledger — because Cable…
