Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:44:34 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ransomware virus on Linux Message-ID: <20151119064434.GB1925@c720-r276659.oa.oclc.org>
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Hello, I've read in the German computer magazine "iX 12/2015" about a threat against Linux: Some ransomware malware encrypts your disk and the bad guys aking for your money to get it decrypted again. All details about this story and how to get it decrypted again w/o spending money is here: http://labs.bitdefender.com/2015/11/linux-ransomware-debut-fails-on-predictable-encryption-key/ Two questions remain: The structure of the attack makes me think that it would work the same way on FreeBSD too. Do we have already known attacks like this? If we would have a known attack and test data from this (i.e. an encrypted file system tree), I think it would be worth to check if the software described by Bitdefender could be ported to FreeBSD too. Any comments? matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, 🌐 http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045
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