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TOPIC: Infrastructure
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Created by:
eroticamazon
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Just because I can :)
So some haxxors have ransomwared the colonial pipeline. Let me explain what that does for the non-nerds. Computer networks consist of public and private networks that interconnect. A public network consists of an IP address that is not in the 192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x or 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 range. Private networks sit in those addresses. How your private network gets to the internet is a device (router) takes a PUBLIC IP address in and then the traffic on that is directed internally. Now what ransomware is someone got a file from some place. It could be they downloaded it to it came in an email. They decided to RUN this program. (Key part there.) Then the program does a FUCKTON of things. It one, discovers all the devices on YOUR network and then all the machines that your machine can get to. Once it has that information it starts its process. It takes every file on your local computer and runs it through an encryption tool. Once it is done with YOUR computer, it goes through what it learned and then hits all the files that YOUR computer can see at that time. Once it is done, it changes the boot loader on the host computer. It comes up with a message that says what it has done. It will then ask for some amount of bitcoin to be sent to an email address. They generally end in .ru After they receive it, they will then send you a long code. You put that long code in on that screen and the software will then work on decrypting the files on the LOCAL computer and then all the ones it saw in the past. This is annoying as fuck if you have a network that has a server that 5 or 50 or 500 store their files on for the company. This is why this shit is really terrible if it hits an admin-level person. Admins generally have rights to see EVERYTHING, so that means EVERY file is encrypted. Colonial Pipeline, got hit. This is a pipeline from Texas up to Maine. IIRC, they are responsible for about 45% of all the fuel for the east coast. Now the fun points: 1. Is this infrastructure that should be regulated? 2. How many are going to blame Biden for gas prices increasing on the east coast now? :) 3. Should the feds invest in systems that would protect vital infrastructure from these types of events?
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TOPIC: Infrastructure
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