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Nictathan
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Celestra
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Copy/paste please?
Can't seem to connect
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Venkmen
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Posted: 05/25/05 - 03:48 Post subject:
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| Quote: | "This is equivalent to someone coming into your home, putting your valuables in a safe and not telling you the combination," said Oliver Friedrichs, a security manager for Symantec Corp.
The FBI said the scheme, which appears isolated, was unlike other Internet extortion crimes. Leading security and antivirus firms this week were updating protective software for companies and consumers to guard against this type of attack, which experts dubbed "ransom-ware."
"This seems fully malicious," said Joe Stewart, a researcher at Chicago-based Lurhq Corp. who studied the attack software. Stewart managed to unlock the infected computer files without paying the extortion, but he worries that improved versions might be more difficult to overcome. Internet attacks commonly become more effective as they evolve over time as hackers learn to avoid the mistakes of earlier infections.
"You would have to pay the guy, or law enforcement would have to get his key to unencrypt the files," Stewart said.
The latest danger adds to the risks facing beleaguered Internet users, who must increasingly deal with categories of threats that include spyware, viruses, worms, phishing e-mail fraud and denial of service attacks.
In the recent case, computer users could be infected by viewing a vandalized Web site with vulnerable Internet browser software. The infection locked up at least 15 types of data files and left behind a note with instructions to send e-mail to a particular address to purchase unlocking keys. In an e-mail reply, the hacker demanded $200 be wired to an Internet banking account. "I send programm to your email," the hacker wrote.
There was no reply to e-mails sent to that address Monday by The Associated Press.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson said more familiar Internet extortion schemes involve hackers demanding tens of thousands of dollars and threatening to attack commercial Web sites, interfering with sales or stealing customer data.
Experts said there were no widespread reports the new threat was spreading, and the Web site was already shut down where the infection originally spread. They also said the hacker's demand for payment might be his weakness, since bank transactions can be traced easily.
"The problem is getting away with it -- you've got to send the money somewhere," Stewart said. "If it involves some sort of monetary transaction, it's far easier to trace than an e-mail account."
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Celestra
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Posted: 05/25/05 - 04:19 Post subject:
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Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-)
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wellspoken
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Posted: 05/25/05 - 15:42 Post subject:
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| Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about?
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Callaren
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Joined: 03 Dec 2003
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Location: South Jersey
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Posted: 05/25/05 - 18:10 Post subject:
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| wellspoken wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about? |
I think she meant to post the hacker's email address everywhere on the web so it gets spammed. It won't get your files unlocked though. 
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wellspoken
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Posted: 05/25/05 - 18:18 Post subject:
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| Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about? |
I think she meant to post the hacker's email address everywhere on the web so it gets spammed. It won't get your files unlocked though. |
Any decent hacker can mask his email address or use fake emails. Hell, a medicore hacker even does that shit.
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Celestra
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 02:49 Post subject:
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Oh, well, excuse me Mister Superiority.
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Callaren
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Joined: 03 Dec 2003
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Location: South Jersey
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 05:23 Post subject:
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| wellspoken wrote: | | Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about? |
I think she meant to post the hacker's email address everywhere on the web so it gets spammed. It won't get your files unlocked though. |
Any decent hacker can mask his email address or use fake emails. Hell, a medicore hacker even does that shit. |
Yep.
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Mugaaz
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Joined: 16 Oct 2002
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 07:59 Post subject:
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| Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about? |
I think she meant to post the hacker's email address everywhere on the web so it gets spammed. It won't get your files unlocked though. |
Any decent hacker can mask his email address or use fake emails. Hell, a medicore hacker even does that shit. |
Yep. |
Even a non hacker is capable of not openeing attachments lol.
"Virus.exe? I wonder what this is, I should download it and find out, OH NOZ!"
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kemble
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Joined: 14 Oct 2002
Posts: 1909
Location: MI
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Posted: 05/26/05 - 08:33 Post subject:
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| Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Callaren wrote: | | wellspoken wrote: | | Celestra wrote: | Thanks Venkman.
And I have the solution.
Get the email address, broadcast it on every messageboard you can find, and have at it.
Spam, virusses etc...
Could be fun =-) |
What in the f**k are you talking about? |
I think she meant to post the hacker's email address everywhere on the web so it gets spammed. It won't get your files unlocked though. |
Any decent hacker can mask his email address or use fake emails. Hell, a medicore hacker even does that shit. |
Yep. |
Umm, yes... masking an email address is not hard, but why would someone mask an email address as part of a scam that requires people to EMAIL them!
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