Vic Wasteland Thread - 15.0

[Birds]

27 minutes ago, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

 

I have always wondered if there is honour amongst thieves here... I.e. If you pay the money do they actually decrypt your shit?

 

After I got attacked I read up about this. Some honour it. Others don't bother (effort for zero gain? not a criminal mindset; plus you could assist others in decrypting their attacks). Others give you the key, but the ransomware attacks you again in future, so you pay twice.

Still not as painful as trying to get out of a direct debit gym membership.

[dezz]

You have to actually open the email and an attachment / link do get done no?

[Birds]

You have to open an attachment/link or give it permission to run, but it can disguise itself as a windows or java update that you click yes to, which is what I did

[Leroy Peterson]

trik trailers make good trailers. not sure about bikes though.

my friend made his own... bought a POS trailer and resto'd it over a weekend.

[dezz]

Paid about $1k for my bike trailer custom made from scratch using Australian steel etc Leigh. The guy is pretty passionate about his trailers too, kept calling me to confirm little details before going ahead so wasn't just a slap together for a quick $1k job... I should probably give him a referral considering I pocket dialled him like a year later at 3am...

Marko 0423227082
Towpax trailers

[dezz]

Picked it up from his house at night too so pretty accommodating...

You should buy mine and I'll buy a new one

[emts]

lucky most of the tools do follow though with the key...and use bad crypto so reverse engineering can sort it and Leigh can fix it.

 

this is the bit where I should say if you have a certain endpoint protection on your PC it would not happen.

 

but hey  you click stupid shit    pay for Leigh...

 

 

[UNR33L]

16 hours ago, joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo said:

 

I have always wondered if there is honour amongst thieves here... I.e. If you pay the money do they actually decrypt your shit?

 

They do, but often their contact details (email address) would get shut down so you cant even get in touch with them, had a customer try emailing them and got bounce backs. 

17 hours ago, Birds said:

Was it the fake AGL bill one?

Similar kind of shit, the user we know who did it is playing dumb.

15 hours ago, Birds said:

After I got attacked I read up about this. Some honour it. Others don't bother (effort for zero gain? not a criminal mindset; plus you could assist others in decrypting their attacks). Others give you the key, but the ransomware attacks you again in future, so you pay twice.

Still not as painful as trying to get out of a direct debit gym membership.

As above, some do honor it usually costs around $1-2k and the GOOD ones have unique keys so cant just upload it on the web and fix it for everyone, although it does help with reverse engineering it for people trying to make tools.

15 hours ago, dezz said:

You have to actually open the email and an attachment / link do get done no?

Yeah basically, need to actually open / download the attached 'bill or invoice' then run it on your computer, then basically all your photos, videos, PDFs, docs gone in minutes 

12 hours ago, dezz said:

Paid about $1k for my bike trailer custom made from scratch using Australian steel etc Leigh. The guy is pretty passionate about his trailers too, kept calling me to confirm little details before going ahead so wasn't just a slap together for a quick $1k job... I should probably give him a referral considering I pocket dialled him like a year later at 3am...

Marko 0423227082
Towpax trailers

Cheers thanks for that I'll suss it out. 

11 hours ago, dezz said:

Picked it up from his house at night too so pretty accommodating...

You should buy mine and I'll buy a new one

How much? is yours a 6x4? I only want a small one 

8 hours ago, emts said:

lucky most of the tools do follow though with the key...and use bad crypto so reverse engineering can sort it and Leigh can fix it.

 

this is the bit where I should say if you have a certain endpoint protection on your PC it would not happen.

 

but hey  you click stupid shit    pay for Leigh...

 

 

Haha, well as much as we warn our customers that they NEED this anti-ransomware software they tend not want it, don't see the threat & waste of money etc. It's not until they get hit they actually buy it. Small business logic I guess, that's after they get billed the whole day of me being out there trying to restore shit from backups.

[Birds]

Backup is the most important protection IMO - tangible offsite can't be electronically hacked

It's a pain to wipe and restore, but DBAN feels so fresh so clean...

[UNR33L]

8 minutes ago, Birds said:

Backup is the most important protection IMO - tangible offsite can't be electronically hacked

It's a pain to wipe and restore, but DBAN feels so fresh so clean...

Yep, most good backup solutions these days do local AND offsite (cloud data center) backups this way you can still restore files quicker locally if you need to restore a heap and you're still protected if you get a fire, flood, theft etc. 

At home I have a little 2 bay NAS with a 'Important' folder basically, and that gets replicated to my 'One Drive' storage so at least if all my shit at home gets hacked or burned down still got all the old photos, another good thing you can do is when you take photos on your phone, automatically sync to your cloud storage.  

Just realized I'm a user of the word 'cloud' 

Edited December 1, 2016 by UNR33L

[Birds]

And the knee jerk relaxes...called it

[Birds]

88E then proceed to release a nothing news update, which will put our high expectations holders on sell...I might just buy in again if I can get a 3.7 order through today.

[Leroy Peterson]

Its just meeting LSX. The poms obviously werent interested in oil price reaching 12 month highs

[Birds]

By meeting LSX you mean coming back down to match their lack of overreaction...

I find London responds more realistically to news events than we do. They are the ones who move up when announcements are positive and technical, unless held down by significant drops on the ASX. Often the two markets bounce off each other when the news is important, good or bad, but the ASX is full of casino gamblers all betting on each other rather than the company; myself included.

It's also not healthy that only 20 odd million shares are out in the market deciding daily the value of over 3 billion shares. Makes a long term hold quite painful to watch and the share very open to manipulation.

[UNR33L]

When you do too many track days on the bike and never check brakes until some kid said DEY ON FIRE!

[Leroy Peterson]

88E update/announcement. Explains the drop

[Birds]

Drop happened before the release; they were lining up 3.8 pre-open. The nothing news will help push it down - as predicted. The 3.7 buy queue is about to run out of demand too.

At least you were right about us not seeing 4 cents today

[Leroy Peterson]

Its as i say, there is good money to be made betting on the opposite of what i say: dont buy a house, dont buy a gtr, the vikings will beat the cowboys, hillary will win, camozzi will beat dan kelly, kosalov will beat ward etc.

[Birds]

[Leroy Peterson]

well the vikings didnt win but i had it on 3 point handicap, so that payed out $5 wew.

maybe i should move to vegas and become a cooler.