Re: Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

2021-06-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 6/25/21 11:59 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:55:12 -0700, JoeSox said: It gets tricky when 'your' company will lose money $$$ while you wait a month to restore from your cloud backups. If that's a concern, you've *already* totally screwed the pooch regarding DR planni

Re: Can somebody explain these ransomwear attacks?

2021-06-26 Thread Jakob Heitz (jheitz) via NANOG
Finding vulnerabilities and how to exploit them to run malware in closed source code is nigh on impossible. Anyone can read open source code. What is possible is to analyze patches to figure out what was fixed and then to attack those that didn't apply the patches. Even easier is old releases. P