Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business
tdog17 writes: A criminal coder wrote a kit for ransomware that made it easy for others to encrypt victims' hard drives and then extort money from them in order to get the decryption keys. But when Intel Security wrote about the kit — called Tox — the author got cold feet. Now he or she is trying to sell the whole business. “Plan A was to stay quiet and hidden. It's been funny, I felt alive, more than ever, but I don't want to be a criminal. The situation is also getting too hot for me to handle, and (sorry to ruin your expectations) I'm not a team of hard core hackers. I’m just a teenager student,” the coder wrote on the Tox malware site.
I thought Script Kiddies were defined as being people who ran scripts they downloaded off the internet that were already made for their purposes. The summary suggests this person wrote their own software. You could claim it is derived from other software, or perhaps even just a pipelined bundle of existing software, but it still sounds like it is a bit beyond just running a script.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Get rich quick scheme didn't work out and now that they've been caught, they don't want to face the consequences.
I used to build lots and lots of Saturday Night Specials and dozens of people died. It's been funny, I felt alive, more than ever, but I don't want to be a criminal. The situation is also getting too hot for me to "handle", as somebody from the police did notice all those dead people, and the way they were murdered. I'd like to sell my completely legitimate business plan now, ok?
I just engaged in criminal conspiracy
what a twatwaffle
You don't want to be a criminal? Well, you ARE one, dearie. Should have thought of that. I hope you spend your entire life behind bars. It will give you time to think about your fail.
Is there any reason to believe this criminal about anything, especially the claim that they're getting out of the business?
Partner with sourceforge, make it part of the EULA. "Not responsible for any damage caused by using this software, including possible loss of data."
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Is not a criminal act
It wouldn't be surprising. A first year student could write a program to open all the files on a filesystem, encrypt them and write them out. Nothing about what the software does is particularly hard or technically complex, it's just a "good" idea that he made into a distributable form for money.
I almost had a bit of sympathy there. A kid realising he's done wrong, wanting to get out of the business. Except that if he actually realised he'd done wrong the appropriate course of action would just be to destroy the software, remove the online presence he uses to sell it and generally just grow the hell up. Instead he's just trying to sell it on so that other people can use it.
The only trace of sympathy I have is if he's done this in America, which locks up a greater proportion of its citizens than pretty much any other nation on earth, often for excessively long periods, and with minimal realistic chance of rehabilitation.
+4 Insightful? Seriously, do you people even know what a Saturday Night Special is? It's a gun that poor people can afford. That's all. I'm not sure exactly what the AC was trying to imply, it's not some kind of bizarre black market chopper thing, nor have they ever been especially popular with criminals.
"If nobody's going to buy the database, in one month I'm releasing the keys, and victims will have their files automatically unlocked.â
Oh , how heart warmingly magnanimous of you! I can see how contrite and sorry you are about what you've done... well apart from still wanting some money for the DB.
Tell you what you sorry little turd, how about you release them anyway and give these poor people their data back? @rsehole.
Let me guess: Good American Christian?
Of course it runs NetBSD. BTC: 1NT7QvbetmANwaMzhpVL6
The Global Financial Crisis has been pretty awesome, actually. Interest rates are rock bottom. I'm actually buying a new house that I'll be able to make a tidy profit on in a few years once it has been fixed up a little.
Oh, you mean the people who couldn't do math and let someone else tell them that they could afford something that simple math skills could have told them they could not afford? Yeah. Sucks to be them. Learn math and basic budgeting. Stop blaming the banks. Everyone always assumes the banks are run by assholes, except apparently when listening to them tell you that you can afford something that you know you can't actually afford.
I'm approved, even now, for a $700k loan. Do you think I am fucking stupid enough to do that? Hell no. I'm not buying a house for even close to that. Live within your means and you will invariably be all right unless you're at the very bottom of the pile.
Well, a criminal one. And stupid. Sounds pretty much like a student, does it not?
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Let me guess: Good American Christian?
From the amount of hate and violence, probably. Makes one wish Christians were actually right about how the world works, as this person would spend an eternity in hell.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
If you think females can't be sophisticated thieves, you've never heard of divorce.
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I hope this letter finds you getting cuffed and stuffed as I write this. I just wanted to let you know what is in store for you as you are being carted away.
1) Real life is way different than your mom's basement. You'll soon discover that when you are in a prison cell.
2) Getting your ass beat up and pummeled will be a daily norm. Only difference is that you will actually get beat and feel every last inch of pain while you really get tea bagged.
3) Saying "I was just trolling" or "LOL Internet" will not stop an ass beating. Saying "U Mad, Bro?" will make the beating worse.
4) You quickly learn that online bravery is far different from real life bravery. Especially if you drop the N Bomb to a group of your fellow black inmates.
5) If you are an anal virgin: You won't be for long.
6) Ass rape. Get use to it. Fast.
7) There is no such thing as respawn points or resurrrection spells in RL. It's permadeath and we hope it is an excruciating one you get.
8) See #7 if you think you can reload your life.
9) Dropping a bar of soap in a prison shower gets you #6. Probably another #2 if the first ass kicking didn't get you a #7 or if they just feel like it.
10) There are no sock puppets or proxies or anonymity in the real world. So snitching or saying the N word will just net you another #2. That and show you really are stupid and learned nothing from the first #2.
11) As you lay beat up and your anus damaged: Just remember that you can turn off your life like a computer: It's called Suicide. Only difference is you can't restart or turn your life back on.
Love,
Everybody. Even your mom.
Okay, how much is the kiddie paying you???
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. -Gandhi