It's going to be fun when ransomware strikes a cryptocurrency. Some of the software this grift is built on is not at NASA avionics level of correctness, and there sure is a lot of money for the taking.
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Putting it another way, because cryptocurrency can't be taken offline by definition, any cryptocurrency is automatically a bug bounty that is some fraction of that currency's total dollar value. (building on this excellent observation by
@qrs https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1395784294451265536 …)
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What's particularly exciting about ransomwareing a cryptocurrency infrastructure is the potential to improve the conversion funnel on the payment step. It automates away the clunkiest part of the operation (the textfile that explains to victims how to send the ransom)
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I think they actually have that. Ransomware as a service.
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Yes, tere's a whole service economy around it now! But I was thinking ransomware that specifically goes after other ransomware, and so on
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Ugh - the future is beautiful
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