On 11/11/15, Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflyby...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For fun, I checked my inbox for any references to the ransomware. > There are ZERO references in what's probably at least 150,000 emails > or more. For that reason, I'm adding the name here: Ransm-C and > Linux/Ransm-C so this thread becomes searchable for it. :)
After I "hung up the cyber phone" aka sent that last email, I searched my inbox for the word "ransomware". *smacking my head* for not thinking to do so originally. Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security had something on ransomware and Linux, just not labeled Ransm-C or anything: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/11/ransomware-now-gunning-for-your-web-sites/ IF I'm understanding correctly, he appears to have updated that article with a *potential* way to beat it via a *potential* vulnerability.... at least until the perpetrators upgrade their own tactics, anyway. I like what Brian's been doing. I can cognitively understand a LOT of what he writes about. He's caught SlashDot's eye a time or two, too. Adding another keyword here, Linux.Decoder.1, which Brian says was a name dubbed by "Russian antivirus and security firm Dr.Web". It may or may not be the same as the other, but sounds like it works similar'ISH. Next stop is to pop over to a group called BlindWebbers. I'd seen Brian's email subject line earlier and thought instantly of them, just didn't get around to opening it then. The guy in Brian's article makes it sound like it's a little time consuming and still has incidental glitches afterwards. That's presumably coming from someone with no visual disabilities. The difficulty level of getting one's website back would understandably rise relative to one's ability or lack thereof to actually see what's going on within the file hierarchy..... AND apparently each single file that reportedly stands to potentially gather random bits AFTER the files have been decrypted. Just thinking out loud... Cindy -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with plastic sporks *