PSA: Malware / Ransomware

[afterhours]

are any of these #^&#^&#^&#^&wads ever caught and prosecuted ? never seem to heard of any being so. do they run rampant until the anti v's catch on and update ?

[ThrowingTimber]

Originally Posted by afterhours

are any of these #^&#^&#^&#^&wads ever caught and prosecuted ? never seem to heard of any being so. do they run rampant until the anti v's catch on and update ?

They actually run their code through checks like virus total to ensure their stuff makes it through/ past anti virii. Make no mistake, this is a business to them. Support helpdesks, the more you buy you get percentages off, they have dev. Cycles. This is not some twit running scripts. Theyre basically "companies"

Some, caught sure. In a coordinated effort (attack) a concerted effort was organized and set of their encryptions keys was stolen and made public. (Fight fire with fire sort if deal)

Krebs on security has an excellent view on security and finger on the pulse of what is happening if you'd like to keep informed 😃 Its not over wordy and easy to read. (Interesting actually)
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[basswipe]

After reading threads like this I thank myself for switching to a Linux distro back in '06.

[Cool Beans]

Just saw this from SecurityWeek

3.2 million devices exposed to ransomware attacks: Cisco.
Security researchers from Cisco Talos discovered that approximately 3.2 million computers were
vulnerable to file-encrypting ransomware due to out-of-date software after an Internet scan on already
compromised devices revealed that more than 2,100 backdoors across 1,600 Internet Protocol (IP)
addresses were associated with governments, schools, aviation companies, and other organizations. Cisco
advised administrators to disable external access to infected machine to keep attackers away.
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/32-milli...-attacks-cisco