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It's surprising that the attackers ask victims to send an email. Why not ask victims to publicly post a picture of their screen to social networks with a certai
by hathawsh 9y ago
It's surprising that the attackers ask victims to send an email. Why not ask victims to publicly post a picture of their screen to social networks with a certain hash tag (and a new account)? That would be less traceable and harder to shut down, I think.
Not that I want to give attackers any ideas... :-)
- blojayble 9y agoThanks, we'll give it a go next time.
- dokument 9y agoI've seen variants that use Bitmessage and other anonymous messengers before.
- lordnacho 9y agoThere's so many creative things you can do when you imagine yourself as one of these attackers. - Make a big target amount of money that any large company can pay, eg $10M, and tell people you'll release everyone's key if the amount is raised. - Use an online board like this one to control the state of your network. - Embarrass individual firms by posting pics of their offices from their own webcams. Etc, etc. I reckon talking about these sorts of things will help find solutions rather than just inspire the bad guys.
- dflock 9y ago> Make a big target amount of money that any large company can pay, eg $10M That sounds like a good way to get state level actors on your case.
- kbenson 9y agoYes, as long as the payments are individually relatively small and anonymous, it's easy for people to misunderstand the amount they may actually be getting. Once you paint a target in the millions, people will notice more, it will become a bigger news story, some congressman or another will make it a pet cause, and then you've got a lot or attention on you. Like any criminal enterprise, the less attention from authorities the better.