You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
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Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#2Victims don't even get the enjoyment of having to make their payments in some far flung corner of an MMO, like the plot of Reamde.
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#3Victims don't even get the enjoyment of having to make their payments in some far flung corner of an MMO, like the plot of Reamde. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde
That's the first thing I thought of, too. This is just about exactly the model of the Reamde crew.
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#4Victims don't even get the enjoyment of having to make their payments in some far flung corner of an MMO, like the plot of Reamde. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10552338-reamde
That's the first thing I thought of, too. This is just about exactly the model of the Reamde crew.
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Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#5The article didn't mention, what systems does this ransomware primarily target? Is it cross-platform?
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#6I'm sorry, but if a firm doesn't compartimentalise access and a single infected workstation can bring down everything, then they deserve what they get.
Hadn't been ransomware it could have very well been a disgruntled employee, to the same effect.
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#7A company I work with was hit when the employee opened a phishing email supposedly from another employee in the same company. It hit about 50 gb of data on the shared drive. We had Crashplan and restored from a few days previous. I then turned on DKIM and enabled quarantining non DKIM emails via DMARC.
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#8Stop using Windows, is a good start.
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#9The article didn't mention, what systems does this ransomware primarily target? Is it cross-platform?
That i know, only MS
Re: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins
#10This scenario - minus the Bitcoins - was a plot device in Neal Stephenson's "Reamde".