Hello, welcome to the Monday, March 7, 2020 edition of the Sansonet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and I'm recording from London, England.

Ukraine, of course, still at the top of the news, and we did on Friday receive a scam email that attempts to solicit donations. It claims to come

from the Red Cross and it does solicit donations in Bitcoin, so there's a Bitcoin address

associated with it. At the time, and I checked it, there were already $10 transferred to that address.

What makes it a little bit complex is that there are a number of legitimate organizations

that are soliciting donations via cryptocoins.

So not all of these cryptocoin donation emails are necessarily scams.

But if you are inclined to help by donating double, triple, quarterable check that the

email and the addresses are legitimate, the same of course, is also possible with credit card numbers that someone may be soliciting

or bank account numbers that may be provided as part of these donation requests.

Always go to the original source, maybe a website of the organization or so that you're familiar with,

to verify these details.

Then there are a couple other developments.

First of all, cogent, one of the large network providers, has disconnected Russia from their network

that likely reduces the bandwidth that Russia has available somewhat.

Haven't seen any other connectivity providers following this move, and it was a little bit

controversial to do that.

So I'm not necessarily expecting it to happen, but yes, sites in Russia are harder to reach.

And of course, the same does also work the other way around, in particular since there is some

continuing denial of service traffic.

Now, regarding the denial of service traffic, Russia actually published two lists. One is a list of

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