This is genius

The Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

couldn't you just infect some VMs?

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>>57965712

Why don't they put this kind of malevolent effort into running a legit business or working somewhere where these talents would be appreciated, like Apple?

Misguided kids.

>>57965719
You have to pay the ransom.

>>57965720
wtf who is mad at canada
whats this guy's twitter handle -_-

>>57965719
Your 2 "friends" have to pay before you get unlocked.

>>57965732
The thing is that working for those companies would inevitably result in all of the profits going to the company rather than yourself. I don't blame them for engaging in illicit activities like this--beats working as a sucker any day.

How the hell do people even get ransomware on their PC, you'd have to be using a million Russian porn sites.

>>57966020
E-mail

Actually ransomwares are the only scary thing on the internet.

>>57965986
/thread
>do all the heavy lifting
>fat slob gets 80% of the profits
>18% is distributed among the other fat slobs
>2% for the back breakers

>>57966058
>be easily replaceable code monkey
>complain that people who make the actual decisions and take the financial risk make more money than you

>>57965712
http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2016/03/new-os-x-ransomware-keranger-infected-transmission-bittorrent-client-installer/

>>57966051
>somehow against all odds manage to get get ransomware
>wipe disk
>restore from backup
wow that sure is scary

>>57965636
I don't get this. You would have to be quite smart and experienced to write practical ransomware from scratch. What is the motivation of the person or team who made this? Couldn't they have gotten real, legit jobs with these skills?

>>57966234
>Transmission’s official website was compromised
>infected Transmission installers were signed with a legitimate certificate
Literally nothing can protect you from that.

>>57966270
A lot of these ransomware makers might be from third world countries where employment might be hard to find and they don't have the means to immigrate somewhere better.

>>57966206
Not the guy you're responding to, but they can take the financial risk all they want. The problem is that I want my fair share of the money, which means I should be getting a minimum of 75% of the profit because I'm the one who developed the object in question, not the guy taking financial risk. If I wanted to take those sorts of risks, I would have done it if I had the money, but I didn't, which is why I'm working for someone who will always be less intelligent and capable than me: because that person somehow managed to get money to even risk in the first place, which means he's either rich or lucky.

>>57966313
Then why don't you assume the risk yourself, start your own business, get a loan, develop your own product, and get 100%?

>>57965732
It's easier to take advantage of retards and old people who don't know any better.

Ransomware like this is so easy to deal with if you keep a backup.

Doesn't even need to be a full backup, just backup some large files offsite, the larger the better.

If this ever happens to you, find those large files you backed up and then find the encrypted version of that same large file. There are programs that will compare the two files and work through it to figure out the encryption key. Which program you use to decrypt will depend on the method of encryption used.

This only works if the files are identical, but if you do it right, you've now got the encryption key and you can go save the rest of your files without issue.

>>57966293
Common Sense

>>57966206
lol
>2008

>>57966385
Isn't that just using a bruteforce attack until the content of the file being decrypted matches the backup?

>>57966313
>gib gib gib
code monkeys are hilarious. Too autistic to negotiate wages, too socially inept to form unions and too risk averse to run a business.
Best part is half of them believe in muh free software.

>>57965983
But what if they both infect 2 more "friends"

>>57966344
Sounds exactly like Apple's business model.

>>57966385
How does that work? Does ransome ware encrypt every file individually?

>>57966419
Yes but since you know they're identical files it's a fairly quick process.

The issue is newer ransomware encrypts each file with a new encryption key. So if this is the case, the only option is a full backup, at which point just nuke the infected drive and start over with your backup.

>>57966456
See
>>57966459


New ransomware will encrypt files individually so this method becomes useless.

All depends what type of ransomware it is.

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>>57966429
u cant scam scammers, not with their own tactics that is

>>57965636
>get a couple friends with junk laptops
>infect those ones
>unlock your own
>wipe them, all three now free of the virus
This person is and idiot.

>>57966334
Because I'm a college student and to make billions in the business world, you have to be lucky or established, the former of which never happens, and the latter is only pertinent to those who inherit fortunes.

>>57966428
I'm not a code monkey. I'm a senior in college. I got a 528 on my MCAT, so I know for a fact I'm smarter than you an 99% of all the people on 4chan.

>>57966702
read the thread
>>57965752

>>57966253
>somehow against all odds manage to get get ransomware
>automatic backups apply incremental patches to files store on NAS, cloud and external hdd you attach monthly to leave at brothers house
>all backups are ransomcrypted and will only realize when its too late
wow that sure is scary

>>57966708
And that's why they get the most money. They can make it happen

There are 800 billion pooinloos who can do what you do

>>57965636
This shit will spread like wildfire. Imagine a kid visiting shady porn sites and gets a cryptolocker. He will be too embarresed to tell his parents and then won't be able to pay the random. So what does he do? He'l load the exe onto a usb and then use it on the school computers, his friends or whatever. Just to avoid getting yelled at.

>>57966766
Most Pajeets wouldn't be able to do well on the MCAT regardless of how much they studied.

>>57966863
>memorized a bunch of facts specific to one test
>""""smarter"""" than 99%

you deserve to be replace by pooinloos

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>>57965636
I would spread it for free.

>>57966814
If it's a school computer, they wouldn't pay the ransom. They'd just reinstall. No important data is on each individual computer, student account data is all on a NAS.

>>57966270
writing ransomware is easy, there is so much code out there. What's hard is spreading

>>57966903
I still fear that something like that might happen.

>>57966886
I only have to memorize like page's worth (front and back) every semester.

The MCAT is something that requires intense critical thinking skills under a fast pace and high pressure. You would know if you weren't so ignorant and could think critically, but you can't because you still have this biased view that the field of medicine is 99% memorization. I agree that most doctors are bad, but the best doctors out there will always be smarter than you and anybody you know.

>>57966726
> my backup drive will take itself out of the drawer I keep it in, plug itself in and encrypt itself
Not likely

>>57966270
Ransomware is a million dollar industry.

Most of the people who wrote these already have real legit jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if corrupt tech companies pay people to do this. The days of a lone programmer doing things of this scale are over.

>>57966944
i guarantee you the best doctors are not nearly as smart as the best physicists/mathematicians

>>57966293
Except from maybe, ANTIVIRUS?

You know, software that detects when other software tries to do suspicious shit on your PC?

LOL COMMON SENSE IS ENOUGH FOR ME I NEED DAT 0.01% PERFORMANCE BRO LOL MACS DONT GET VIRUSES I BELIEVE MEMES BECAUSE IM A STUPID FUCK

>>57966984
My dad took the MCATs and his GRE for physics.

He got top marks on both, but since he wanted to study astrophysics, he chose that instead.

>>57966984
I'm pretty sure they're equally as smart, if not smarter.

Put both of them through the same formal training and see who does better than the other when they have their fields flipped.

I can tell you for a fact that my first anatomy and physiology class in college was much more difficult than my first quantum physics course. It was even more difficult than calc 1,2, and 3, and diff. eq and linear algebra combined.

>>57966944
How do you know if that guy isn't friends with someone like hawking? Pretty sure hawking is "smarter"

>>57967018
>my first anatomy and physiology class in college was much more difficult than my first quantum physics course
you're full of shit.

I took anatomy and physiology in college and it was dead fucking simple for anyone who had Biology in highschool. Only difference was more indepth discussion on the same concepts and more advanced dissections and such.

Might be a bit of different strokes for different folks, but the maths for quantum physics for MOST people is going to be FAR harder than memorizing anatomical facts.

>>57967018
sure maybe a doctor could learn the basics of math/physics easier than a mathematician could memorize all of those facts.

in order to actually innovate in those fields it is much more difficult. can you imagine what's going through hawking's head all day long? or even Mochizuki? innovation in medicine is just trial and error.

>>57967121
>innovation in medicine is just trial and error.

uh
inventing new math theories and algorithms is "just" trial and error too.

the fuck is wrong with you?

>>57966726

Most of these ransomware will only infect the user folder. Keep your important files in another partition (or back them up in a different external drive).

>>57967134
false

>>57967047
I've gotten As in all of my math courses and math-based science courses. Memorizing things for anatomy was easy as pie, but actually understanding the physiology was incredibly difficult. Thankfully my professor helped clear up concepts I didn't quite understand after reading the textbook.

>>57967121
It's very difficult to have a trial-and-error-based approached in medicine because human lives are at stake.

You're not risking anything by doing trial and error in physics because you're not really risking anybody's life. It's all theoretical, and then you can do small labs in isolated environments. In medicine though? Good luck finding a willing test subject, and good luck getting enough people to think your experiment is even ethical in the first place.

Something goes wrong? Say goodbye to your career, even if you are the best doctor in the world.

>>57966708
You're an idiot, most of the billionares on shark tank started with little to nothing.

Also being smarter than 99% of people on a board devoted to nip cartoons is nothing to be proud of, but you're too stupid to have realized that anyway.

>my MCAT
Boy, what a prententious fag. Did your mother wipe your asshole until you moved out of her basement?

>>57967384
Understanding physiology is dead easy. It's just a a system with multiple paths, some feedback, a bunch of inputs and some outputs.

I took some second and third year A&P courses in uni for fun and squashed the bio and kinesiology majors. Then again, I majored in mechanical engineering so the thought processes were quite similar.

Don't equate your personal experience to the difficulty of a profession. Different strokes for different folks.

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>>57967384
/r/iamverysmart

wow you are so smart m8, keep masturbating

>>57967121
Innovation in medicine happens by engineers lol. Doctors don't know jack shit about the machine theyre working with, while the engineers NEEDS to know what the machine gets made for.

>>57967720
go back to redd.it faggot

>>57966996
Antivirus detection always lags behind. By the time it's added to the database and updated on your PC, it's usually too late. Heuristics/generic threat detection barely works and gives too many false positives to be useful.

>>57967720
Drink bleach you stupid queer.

>>57965712
People with Common Sense 2017 don't have this problem either

>>57966293
>The KeRanger application was signed with a valid Mac app development certificate; therefore, it was able to bypass Apple’s Gatekeeper protection.
Wow, that's fucking terrible protection.

Sure, if you use your development certificate to make malware it will get revoked but just whitelisting applications that have a valid development certificate is fucking retarded.

>>57966726
>>57966978
>>57967290
Ransomware stealthy installs onto your backup external hard drive when you plug it in to backup files. You are unaware until it is too late. Main and backup files are ransomwared.

>>57969212
This. And while I'm sure many of us can think of interesting secure solutions to this, ransomware doesn't need to get everyone. If it can infect the main system and one layer of simple backups, that's 99% of everyone including "tech savvy" people.

I still wonder how they get away with this. there must be a money trail no matter how they do it.

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>you use gnu/linux

>>57966726
>keeping your backup HDD connected
You deserve losing all your files.

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>mfw i have zero important files and getting ransomwared would be an excuse to try a different distro

>>57969212
I store my files on my NAS and backup from my NAS to an external drive directly (ability to access my backup drive from my computers) and do incremental with occasional snapshot backups.

So I'm fine.

>>57969395
>use linux
>get ransomware
>...as a tarball
>autoconf script is missing dependencies
>makefile misses required cc flags for your compiler
>install script fails due to your distros grub config
>browse forums for solutions
>finally kludge it in place manually
>Windows and Mac users were already infected hours ago

Trash OS for trash people

>>57969540
"Has your main ever had access to your X?"
X = external hard drive, backup, etc.
If yes, then it and anything it is connected to is stealthy infected.

>>57965948
t. leaf

>>57965712
And Nick Vujicic has never stubbed his toe.

>>57966293
>torrent client
play stupid games, win stupid prizes

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>>57966708
>I'm a senior in college
Go back to your safe space.

>Use Tails
>Only browse the web with Tor, 4 proxies and a VPN
>Literally only go on 4chan
I'm not afraid desu.

>>57966708
>i'm not a code monkey
>i'm a senior in college

what's the difference?

>>57969605
kek

>>57966708
>I'm not a code monkey. I'm a senior in college. I got a 528 on my MCAT, so I know for a fact I'm smarter than you an 99% of all the people on 4chan.
>boasting about your personal achievements on a Taiwanese interracial finger painting cave mural forum
This is the most pathetic thing I've read. Faggots like you don't even deserve to be doctors.

>>57965712
Why aren't Applel cucks not prime target of ransomwear? If they have $ for Applel, they should have $ for handsome random too.

>>57966708
I have a PhD in computer science from Stanford so FUCK OFF.

>scum in the title
cute, high quality, journalism

>>57966385
post ONE fucking example of this because otherwise you are full of shit.

>>57966726
>>57969212
>keep your backups on M-Discs which can't be infected
Wow, that sure is scary.

>>57966429
Then those 4 have to pay.
It's a pyramid scheme where the top gets 100% of the income

Who else is /scared/

>>57966020

Scripts/ads/popups
Pirating games and software
Torrenting the latest tv series/movies from shady websites
Downloading private/hard to get porn that's hidden behind paywalls
Flash games
Manuals/pdf files/schematics for technology devices etc.

Macbook
Macbook
Macbook
Macbook
Macbook
Macbook
I'm good

>>57969605

>Takes forever to make anything work
>Windows and Mac users had it running hours ago

Too bad this applies to everything and not just Malware, maybe you'd have an actual market share otherwise.

>>57970230
>Taiwanese interracial finger painting cave mural forum

that one was good anon. saved

>>57972241
Not every goddamn OS has to be made from a blue chip company. I prefer one that isn't, actually. I'd rather invest in blue chips rather than allow them to monitor my digital activity.

>>57965948
>Twitter
Found the nigger

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>>57965636
Just restart your computer

>>57969615
>"Has your main ever had access to your X?"
No. Everything goes through the NAS.

Even if the files on the NAS get encrypted, the files on the backup will be fine because there is no way for my main to access the backup directly.
And my backups are done by the root user, so it would require the malware to get onto my NAS and gain root privileges to encrypt the backups.
And my backup drive is only connected when I am carrying out the backup, which is once a week.

Outsmarting stupid people does not make you a genius.

>>57977203
this guy came up with auto-spreading malware. It is genius

>>57966253
Yeah the ransomware business model only makes sense if infect someone with data that's worth money. In that case you should have a real backup policy in place. The only thing I'd pay ransom for on my comptuer is my code and I keep a gitlab account for that and make tar balls regularly and put them in a directory only root can write to.

>infect two virtual machines
wow

>>57972220
>osx doesnt get viruses
The time is long past you can say that with a straight face, son.

>>57977223
read the thread idiot

>>57977249
yeah not reading all this shit
even so;
>ctrl-f
>"virtual machine"
>0 results
i was the first one to figure that out famalam
why wouldn't it work?

>>57966702
This.

>>57977297
Literally the third post
>>57965719

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>>57967384
>I've gotten As in all of my math courses and math-based science courses. Memorizing things for anatomy was easy as pie, but actually understanding the physiology was incredibly difficult. Thankfully my professor helped clear up concepts I didn't quite understand after reading the textbook.
Fucking normies get off my board!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

>>57970230
>>57972294
Same. Copied, saved, and upvoted. xD

>>57970308
Apple products can be bought with monthly payments. Even a NEET can afford expensive hardware with monthly payments.

>>57968819
>Heuristics/generic threat detection barely works and gives too many false positives to be useful.
[citation needed]

We're not in the 90's anymore, heuristics actually works well now

>>57965636
Inb4 this is counted as terrorism, since the social fabric could be impacted as the people become suspicious of others who might just propagate the ransomware to them so as to save the monies.

>>57980135
https://youtu.be/aWyn8QS74EY?t=87
This is how you sound right now.

>>57966385
You can't break any decent cipher(such as AES, Blowfish, Twofish, fuck, even 3DES) with known-plaintext attacks as long as they use a sane block cipher mode.

>>57966300
>it's the white cis male's fault

Every fucking time.

>>57965712
I bet the Retina Display is a crucial factor here

>>57977215
>auto-spreading malware
>genius

I want the underage to leave.

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>>57969395
>you use low quality bait

>>57977223

Your friends have to pay your dues.

>>57969212
That’s why I backup to Blu-Ray.