Re:The ransomware surge
by contingencies on Friday April 30, 2021 @05:37PM
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Behavioral heuristics are best learned in-situ; you need to know how the software is used with which data to correctly profile normal behavior. Some users and workloads hate sandboxes, though, and a 'Run as Adminstrator'-esque familiar-escape thus demanded by users will no doubt destroy its utility. Ultimately, someone must correctly articulate what the system is supposed to do, and this requires knowledge.
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Re:The ransomware surge
by Wowfunhappy on Friday April 30, 2021 @06:21PM
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Okay, but these particular heuristics aren’t rocket science. Is a process rewriting 25% of my hard disk, and/or 10% of one of my backup drives? Time to send an alert to the user, and an IT admin if this isn’t a personal devices. There are very few legitimate use cases for that.
Had to troubleshoot Windows software from a MAJOR shipping provider that popped up a “you must do this thing” on a fully up to date Win10 system today.
“The thing” would not work as an unprivileged user account and would only work as a right click run as administrator situation :-)