Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted November 8, 2013 Root Admin ID:751278 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Warning... a lot of foul language used on this post. Funny and sad at the same time. Can't believe the level of System Admins that some companies employ. Accounting firm gets Cryptolocker Virus Accounting firm gets Cryptolocker Virus. Tech wipes the server to clean it because he has Carbonite backups. He can't remember password to the privately managed encryption key file and can't download the firms backup. Everything lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daledoc1 Posted November 8, 2013 ID:751304 Share Posted November 8, 2013 O.M.G. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted November 8, 2013 ID:751315 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Oh. My. Wow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted November 8, 2013 ID:751411 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Especially since, the Crypto Locker (a major type of cryptovirology) is NOT a virus, it is a trojan ! It (current renditions of the Crypto Locker) is incapable of self replication or autonomous spreading. It needs the assistance of Social Engineering, Spear Phishing, Vulnerability Exploitation and other external means to infect a given host. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted November 8, 2013 ID:751439 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Two things they haven't tried : 1) Disk recovery + reinfection + pay ransom (expensive : yes, but if it works...) or, 2) hypnosis on the IT guy, to get the password back (hey, who knows !) Wow... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted November 8, 2013 ID:751585 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Especially since, the Crypto Locker (a major type of cryptovirology) is NOT a virus, it is a trojan ! Well, we call that type of malware 'ransomware', if you want to get technical. As for the issue at hand, what corporation does not have on-site backups made to external hard drives or tapes? Online backup services are great, but why on Earth you would rely solely on such mechanisms is beyond me. Data like what they had is too important to risk losing to forgotten passwords and such. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David H. Lipman Posted November 9, 2013 ID:751592 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Ransomware is a sub-type of the overarching concept of cryptovirology. It is a sub-type because one can encrypt a target's data without holding them for a ransom fee and one can also hold a system hostage for ransom without any form of data encryption. So calling it ransomware is getting more technical, it is qualifying the classification of the Crypto trojan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWB Posted November 9, 2013 ID:751593 Share Posted November 9, 2013 "So while I have great sympathy for this owner and the firm ..."aaannnddd ... ya know where you find "sympathy" in the dictionary ... and it is worth just about as much . ron , you are right about the language ... however it goes beyond that ...attitudepersonaprofessionalism (lack thereof)deportment i don't know how others feel , about the last person i would want to have some thing to do with is a guy that "blogs" about going out and drinking and then (from all outward appearances) proceeds to post while in the process of killing more of his dwindling number of braincells via ingestion of ethanol based liquids .his accounting of the "morning after" shows a total lack professional decorum ...in short , he is (in my opinion) a self-important twit that could use a couple of lessons in "grow up" . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted November 9, 2013 ID:751617 Share Posted November 9, 2013 I thought it was a worm? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted November 9, 2013 ID:751661 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Ransomware is a sub-type of the overarching concept of cryptovirology. It is a sub-type because one can encrypt a target's data without holding them for a ransom fee and one can also hold a system hostage for ransom without any form of data encryption. So calling it ransomware is getting more technical, it is qualifying the classification of the Crypto trojan. Didn't you just say the same thing I did? ... in the process of killing more of his dwindling number of braincells via ingestion of ethanol based liquids . ... You know what's really tasty? Some nice hot coffee with some Bailey's Original Irish Cream in it. I also like to put some spiced rum in hot chocolate, and my favorite is Captain Morgan Black (although there are some good rums that I haven't tried yet). in short , he is (in my opinion) a self-important twit that could use a couple of lessons in "grow up" . So, basically, he's a typical reddit user? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoople Posted November 10, 2013 ID:751879 Share Posted November 10, 2013 This is why it is nice to write passwords down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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