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| Worst hackers avoid attacking Eastern European countries: reports |
| 2021-06-19 |
| [FoxNews] Notorious ransomware checks language of computer to avoid ex-Soviet bloc countries. DarkSide, the criminal organization behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, and other high-profile hacking groups bar their partners from installing malicious software on computers using certain languages, according to Krebs on Security, a cybersecurity news site. This has been going on since the early days of organized cybercrime, and "it is intended to minimize scrutiny and interference from local authorities," Krebs wrote as part of a post pointing out that certain malware will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that has a Russian or Ukrainian virtual keyboard installed. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 My first thought was pipe hitters, and not the Hunter Biden kind. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-06-19 15:14 |
| #6 Check out CYWARE for more "reported" and unreported IT Security news and ITSEC issues. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-19 14:42 |
| #5 Отлично, Константин! |
| Posted by: Lionel Tingle5979 2021-06-19 13:45 |
| #4 As Bidet and the Kalorama Kompounds flood the former US with peasants and serfs, the looting of the treasury continues apace and the modern Rome is being sacked by cyber invaders.... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-06-19 13:12 |
| #3 Or perhaps the Eastern Euro sysadmins are paranoid enough to change the default passwords on their servers. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-19 13:02 |
| #2 Yep and Eastern European secret police are less friendly than the incompetent political apparatiks that run Western intelligence services |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2021-06-19 09:35 |
| #1 There's no money in it. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2021-06-19 09:28 |