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GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by soneil »

andi999 wrote: post #58
usednet wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.

Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.

That was my first thought - the only logical way I could see for step 3 would be to pay for people's parking.

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by cube00 »

andi999 wrote: post #58
usednet wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its definitely a cultural thing. The task would be extremely easy in any Indian city, but they probably don’t realize it would be near impossible in the West. Same with task 3, it would bankrupt Americans to pay for somebody else’s medical bills.

Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.

Even countries with universal health care have private hospitals, they'll take your money. One near me asks you to consider paying for their services out of your retirement funds if you don't have private health insurance.

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by andi999 »

cube00 wrote: post #62
andi999 wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.

Even countries with universal health care have private hospitals, they'll take your money. One near me asks you to consider paying for their services out of your retirement funds if you don't have private health insurance.

So change the premise of a person who cannot afford the treatment to cannot afford it in a private hospital? Hownto find such a person?

Probably the easiest of alln3 is to fly to some poor country and do the stuff there (supported by a local lawyer).

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by cryptica »

I've been predicting the rise of 'good clans' and 'good mafias' for some time. IMO, as governments become more corrupt, good people will be forced to join clans which adhere to their principles for survival. Power will shift towards clans, mafias and hacker groups.

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Post by larodi »

cryptica wrote: post #64

I've been predicting the rise of 'good clans' and 'good mafias' for some time. IMO, as governments become more corrupt, good people will be forced to join clans which adhere to their principles for survival. Power will shift towards clans, mafias and hacker groups.

very typically it is clans/mafia that corrupt the governments. such claims that mafia/clans are better than governments are very short-sighted and childish by nature.

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by SemanticStrengh »

RektBoy wrote: post #27

What is next? Be healthy ransomware? Forcing people to exercise on camera, for keys?

I think there is an untapped market for people willingly paying some people to watch/monitor them achieve their desired goals consistently. It's similar to beeminder and bodydoubling or r/GetMotivatedBuddies except it would be much more effective because of professionalism. On beeminder there's not check if you being honest/accountable. On GetMotivatedBuddies you generally find unreliable people AND you must coach them too. On bodydoubling websites, people are watching each other but there's generally not interactions, just eyes. And no professionalism.

The one that will build this will enable a disruptive market where people can finally become much closer to their ideal self, by the effective means of social pressure, real-time e-coaching and monetary incentive. Does this actually exists?

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by jeroenhd »

I can see a younger version of myself making something like this and intentionally letting it slip to the media for attention. I th8nk this line is telling: "Since there are no known victims/ targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown."

I don't think there's a risk if any great outbreak here. A bunch of scriptkiddies took some open source project and modified it with some silly instructions.

Alternatively, I could see this used in one of those scam calls. They set up remote accesslike normally and then months laltrr the6 infrct their victims and the "trusted Microsoft technician" gives them a call to steal even more off their money. This time there's an actual piece of malware that gets removed, solidifying trust in the scammers even though they were the ones to infect the victims in the first place.

Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor

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Post by SemanticStrengh »

nemo44x wrote: post #57

What happens when a poor person gets this virus?

Is there a way to prove that you own an old bank account with X money in it? Or better, to be able to exhaustively list your bank accounts and their respective amounts? Well a salary bill pay document should be enough though if not falsifiable.
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