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paraphrasing Dave Aitel, think of ransomeware as just another form of DoS (internal instead of external). There is an under-appreciated value in ransomware tha
by DyslexicAtheist 6y ago
paraphrasing Dave Aitel, think of ransomeware as just another form of DoS (internal instead of external).
There is an under-appreciated value in ransomware that goes beyond commercial threat actors seeking "only" financial profit, and I think we'll see more targeted campaigns where primary motivation isn't a financial one, but extorting favors or other actionable intel from the data.
- raesene9 6y agoYeah there's a suite of things that can come out of this (I think) as it's more commoditized. For me though the biggest part is the Security Vulnerability-->money pipeline. We know there are a load of vulnerabilities in software and bad configurations out there, what was lacking for attackers was a reliable way to turn that into money that they could get access to relatively untraceably, now they have that with a combination of ransomware and coins like Monero. It's like in traditional fraud, the thing stopping it happening more wasn't so much people's great controls, it was the difficulty for the fraudsters in moving the money into a part of the banking system that was less traceable (like cash).