Great podcast from Radiolab about what it is like to be hit with ransomware
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http://www.radiolab.org/story/darkode/
Looks like this topic is getting big enough to make the mainstream now.
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Only now? Cryptolocker has been in the news for years, hasn't it?
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I thought it was at least one year in the mainstream at this point.
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mainstream like grandma mainstream. they said on the podcast that over 1M people in the US have been hit.
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I'm not surprised. Looking in on some IT communities it seems that the hit rate is incredible, even among IT pros.
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yeah they were also talking about how many police departments have paid the ransom.
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@Nic said:
yeah they were also talking about how many police departments have paid the ransom.
Cylance told me they were demoing Cylance for a police department, and the day after the deployment they were hit with a spearphishing attack that would have dropped ransomware on them.
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@Dashrender said:
Cylance told me they were demoing Cylance for a police department, and the day after the deployment they were hit with a spearphishing attack that would have dropped ransomware on them.
They also said that they were going to do technical training on ethical hacking and just talked about how downloading trojans is bad. I don't have a lot of faith in them. They were pretty pathetic from what I saw. Their ideas on security feel more like marketing than anything.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Cylance told me they were demoing Cylance for a police department, and the day after the deployment they were hit with a spearphishing attack that would have dropped ransomware on them.
They also said that they were going to do technical training on ethical hacking and just talked about how downloading trojans is bad. I don't have a lot of faith in them. They were pretty pathetic from what I saw. Their ideas on security feel more like marketing than anything.
I agree that the presentation was horrible. I wonder if they ever addressed that in a post on SW?
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@Dashrender said:
I agree that the presentation was horrible. I wonder if they ever addressed that in a post on SW?
I've never seen them post or participate in any way, I had never heard their name before seeing their booth at SpiceWorld. My only interaction with them was that scam of a talk, no need to converse with them after that.
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I started a thread and tagged them.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1225743-ethical-hackers-panel-at-spiceworld -
That's gotten some attention. I have not seen the vendor respond, though!
