The anatomy of a malware attack: Past, present and future
summary
Ransomware now encrypts whole drives with military grade ciphers and demands payments like €1,000 as seen with Cryptolocker and Jigsaw while hospitals and cities suffer real downtime, Hollywood Presbyterian paying about $17,000 in Bitcoin and SF Muni losing a day of ticketing. Attackers buy turnkey kits on darknet markets for $39–$50 and combine them with spam and exploit services to scale profitable hits. Mirai uses default credentials to herd hundreds of thousands of IoT devices into DDoS botnets and its code is now open source, enabling wider abuse.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to malware talk
- 1:25Malware in the past
- 3:52Malware in the present
- 7:22Malware as a service
- 9:51Future of malware attacks
- 10:54Fighting back against malware
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