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Ransomware - how prevalent and how to deal with it
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rgmartin91 wrote: »Yet another major attack that is rippling across the world - is this going to become a regular now?
http://www.newstalk.com/Irishbased-firms-hit-by-latest-ransomware-cyberattack
If anyone is any doubt as to just how prevalent hacking has become, check this out. It's a live stream of cyber attacks as they happen :eek:
https://brandon.global/cyber-attacks-live#cybersecurity
The recent high profile attacks are a direct result of the leaked NSA goody bag of exploits. I believe this new attack uses the same exploit as WannaCry (in which case WTF were people thinking not patching their systems). So, there'll be a spike in these kinds of high profile indiscriminate attacks for a while but the reality is that all sorts of cyber attacks have been going on for years (and decades... but the more connected everything gets the more attacks you see... IoT is going to be soooooo much fun
). WannaCry just captured the general population's attention.Bad news :
A German email provider has closed the account of a hacker behind the new ransomware outbreak, meaning victims can't get decryption keys.
So, even if you just wanted to pay, get your data back in action and learn yer lesson, you can't
They could have waited, and see who was accessing it. Nope.
Nice going German clowns
Short term, yes this sucks for those affected but in the long term, one of the effective ways to stop these kinds of attacks is to make it non profitable. Basically, anything that proliferates the notion that paying the ransom does not guarantee you anything will help to motivate people to put recovery plans in place instead of paying the "bad guys". If ransomware attacks cease to be profitable you at least cut out one of the attack actors from the situation.
As for tracking the culprits. These ransoms are typically paid with Bitcoin these days which makes it very easy for someone with a bit of technical know-how to hide their identity.0 -
Bad news :
A German email provider has closed the account of a hacker behind the new ransomware outbreak, meaning victims can't get decryption keys.
So, even if you just wanted to pay, get your data back in action and learn yer lesson, you can't
They could have waited, and see who was accessing it. Nope.
Nice going German clowns
I'd seen other rumours of this, but Kaspersky are saying that this was not Ransomware but actually a destructive wiper. So nobody was getting their data back anyway.The recent high profile attacks are a direct result of the leaked NSA goody bag of exploits. I believe this new attack uses the same exploit as WannaCry (in which case WTF were people thinking not patching their systems). So, there'll be a spike in these kinds of high profile indiscriminate attacks for a while but the reality is that all sorts of cyber attacks have been going on for years (and decades... but the more connected everything gets the more attacks you see... IoT is going to be soooooo much fun). WannaCry just captured the general population's attention.
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From some of the reports out there, yes EternalBlue was used to get a foothold in to a vulnerable machine, but then Petya/NotPetya used Mimikatz to acquire local credentials and then used either PSExec or WMIC to move laterally - so even fully patched machines could be compromised. :eek::(0 -
the more connected everything gets the more attacks you see... IoT is going to be soooooo much fun
Saw a quote today, can't remember where or by who, but it was something like "we took a system designed to withstand a nuclear attack, and made it vulnerable to toasters"
Increasingly looking like the latest was a targeted attack on Ukraine, not designed to make money.Scrap the cap!
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