Little buggers!

[Lost User]

Looks like the only way to get the files back is to pay (not that paying would guarantee this, they're criminals afterall). Luckily I don't have files that are not recoverable from other places, it's just a major PITA. So no they won't be getting any money.

[raddevus]

I'm very sorry that happened to you. I do appreciate it that you posted the text content that you saw. I've always wondered about that. Also, it is a bit scary to see how sophisticated the data-hostage system is. Hope you can work this out somehow without paying the terrible people behind it.

[Lost User]

They tell me Kizi. Which to me looks like a normal games site, I'm just wondering if it has the pop-ups like 'are you sure want to leave this game' which then downloads something when you click yes. Although my knowledge of malware is limited.

[Steve Wellens]

PompeyThree wrote:

I'll get my revenge tomorrow when they're at school by logging into their Minecraft and destroying all their villages.

Yes, revenge is very good.

[Jorgen Andersson]

Damn parasites! :mad:

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

[R Giskard Reventlov]

If all the important stuff is backed up at work, maybe you'd be better 'accidently' dropping the laptop into a large and very muddy puddle... like the channel. :-)

[Steve Wellens]

If UK laws are like US laws, a felony has been committed. You should report it to the UK equivalent of the FBI.

[Chris Maunder]

You had it all backed-up, though, right? And the backups weren't on a connected drive? (Yeah - we've been through that too!)

cheers Chris Maunder

[OriginalGriff]

PompeyThree wrote:

So no they won't be getting any money

Good! We had one victim here last year in QA - he had paid them, but the decryption key they sold him didn't work... Even if it did, would you trust them not to leave enough on your system to repeat the process next month? After all, they know you will pay, so you are a repeat customer after all! :laugh: Scumbags. Shooting is too good for 'em.

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[GuyThiebaut]

I would just give the straight story. After all it was your kids and not some friend in a competing company who you leant your laptop to for a weekend. Spinning a story probably won't feel comfortable and 'white lies' have a tendency of developing a life of their own which then needs to be kept alive. Saying what happened won't be comfortable either but I think most people would understand that letting kids play on a computer is fairly normal and you will get to keep your sense of integrity. Good luck :thumbsup:

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[HobbyProggy]

F*ck, those dumb ransom Viruses are bad, really bad, i once tried decrypting a 2048 RSA, took ages and got aborted before i nearly reached the key. The police in germany says better pay as long as it's cheap, maybe you'll get the data back otherwise they also can't do anything about it. BTW: Hope you didn't plug it in at work, otherwise this B**tard might spread across the company, we had such an issue here, had to disconect 10 machines and reinstall them by hand after cleaning everything off. Thank god it didn't hit a server.

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[Pete OHanlon]

What no one has addressed is how poor the SecOps team have been in leaving your laptop open to vulnerabilities like this. A half decent SecOps team will ensure that devices are secured to a point where attack vectors like this cannot happen. Let this be a salutary lesson for them that they need to protect devices - it's too easy for someone to get something nefarious into a system if they leave gaping holes like this.

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[Jorgen Andersson]

Yet another reason to keep using Tape backups.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

[Rob Philpott]

Do you know what they did that led to this outcome?

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[Johnny J]

Why? You wanna try it out? :confused:

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[Rob Philpott]

Not really, although I have backups of backups. And all my data is garbage anyway. No, I just want to know how you get a laptop to do this. Don't open dodgy attachments, don't run anything which looks like an executable from the net. Make sure things are signed. I would think that would be enough. I'm curious about rumours that all you have to do is a hit a 'bad' webpage with your browser in order to get infected. How does that work? Presumably the days of buffer overrun etc. are over, and the browser vets its feed.

Regards, Rob Philpott.

[chriselst]

HobbyProggy wrote:

BTW: Hope you didn't plug it in at work, otherwise this B**tard might spread across the company, we had such an issue here, had to disconect 10 machines and reinstall them by hand after cleaning everything off. Thank god it didn't hit a server.

Many, many years ago the company I worked for had their servers down for 3 days after a virus swarmed through the network. Fortunately I was away on my honeymoon at the time. Turned out it was the CEO who had let his kids on his laptop then brought it into the office and plugged it in to the network.

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[Member 11683251]

Depending on which ransom ware it is and which version there might be a miniscule chance to get the data back. I remember reading about one version of ransom ware in which the private key was stored on the computer. But it might just have been temporarily and it would later get deleted but worth a shot googling the issue. Ransomware is creepy, never been much to worry about viruses but these buggers got me ultra paranoid.

[Nelek]

GuyThiebaut wrote:

I think most people would understand that letting kids play on a computer is fairly normal and you will get to keep your sense of integrity.

Except of if laptop is company ware and the boss is a jerk. Then you probably are going to have an unpleasant day.

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[megaadam]

I think browsers are fairly safe from buffer overrun exploits these days. Most of today's ransomware uses a simple approach: Simple banner flashing "OLD DRIVERS DETECTED" or "YOU MUST FIX YOUR SLOW COMPUTER" etc and then "download to fix" so them kids downloaded an exe and ran it.

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