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What would a reality look like in which cryptocurrency did not exist to create the financial incentive for these attacks? Assuming the same lack of security exp
by fuckcensorship 5y ago
What would a reality look like in which cryptocurrency did not exist to create the financial incentive for these attacks? Assuming the same lack of security exploited by ransomware also exists in this reality, how would the attacks differ? Would the attacks be less common or cease to exist because the financial motivation to do so no longer exists? In which case, wouldn’t that indirectly prolong the existence of insecure and exploitable systems?
Personally, I think there will be a long-term positive change in the tech world as a result of the recent rise in ransomeware. I think it has forced companies to reevaluate their security practices in an unprecedentedly serious way.
- twox2 5y agoI think cryptocurrency made ransomware more rampant, because of the ease of payment. Without cryptocurrency, ransoms would probably be MUCH higher. Folks would be standing in line at western union to pay their ransoms, and the threat actors would have less assurance their ransoms would arrive.
- frozenport 5y agoLol what. Now everybody from small businesses to hospitals has to defend themselves against untouchable criminals armed by by military technology exploiting zero days in code they can't patch (let alone understand). What we're seeing is that even the supposedly best equiped and most interested parties: chip companies, crypto markets, hospitals are getting pwned.
- _kbh_ 5y agoHospitals likely have some of the worst IT environments around, its unsurprising. When it's a choice between IT and more doctors, hospitals are likely to choose more doctors.
- dankboys 5y agoNobodies throwing zero days against Dave and Susan's Toy Store, it's just not economically feasible.