Re:Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @12:41PM
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This isn't 8-dimensions.
For someone who works in this space this would be a simple framing attempt. I give that like one dimension, maybe one and a half. In reality it's probably just a dumb crook or someone doing it for the lulz.
Re:Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
by hhh on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:47PM
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Someone has a bot that scrapes Github for Discord bot tokens and deletes all content in servers it has permissions in and replaces it with info saying X person did it and to "come to his house."
Stuff like that is pretty common I feel for people to use against their enemies. Especially if it was designed to be small and got out of hand.
Re:Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
by pertymcpert on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:52PM
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Or maybe they know it'll look too dumb and thus suspect a framing attempt, so it's 3D class after all.
Re:Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
by 14 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:52PM
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It could just be a person with some computer knowledge but not really smart enough to do an encrypted attack and if fake ID is as easy as some posters suggest, and they could very quickly and easily with the limited knowledge they had come out with a few thousand dollars then I don't think they were dumb or stupid. It may look stupid given how complex attacks can be these days but so too does the Nigerian Prince email look stupid. But he to this day is still looking for someone to help him with his money.
I normally come to the same conclusion when I'm thinking about politics.