#types of ransomware

[regicidal-defenestration]

Me 🤝 the characters of Something Inside

Brainworms

[mothman-etd]

I have talked a few times about Psychological Operations or psyops on here, but I would like to point out a real world example of a PO Operation that was found out recently by the Department of Justice.

Before that though, If you would like to read more about the actual position of a PO soldier, you can look no further then the PO benefits page on the US Army special operations recruitment website (https://www.goarmysof.army.mil/PO/).

Personally I feel like many people still believe psyops to be some kind of conspiracy theory instead of a fairly standard military division in almost all modern militaries, anyways onto the example.

The US Department of Justice is going after (indicting) two RT (Russian state media) employees for committing fraud and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

Basically they created a front "media" company in Tennessee, translated russian propaganda videos into english, then paid right-wing influencers to promote (reblog/retweet/talk about on streams) said videos.

Three of the named influencers that I could find were Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson.

I honestly have no idea who these three are, but supposedly their platforms have millions of followers. Also, some of these influencers were paid up too $100,000 a week to promote their videos and messaging.

So to summarize, Russia setup a fake company to pay American influencers to repeat their lies so that their followers would interpret those lies as legitimate since their were coming from a source they trust.

When people talk about election interference this is what we are talking about.

$100K a week is insane money for most, I am sure many people would be hard pressed to not sell their soul for that much money. Many of the videos from this media company were lies about the Ukraine war, and looking into Tim Pool it seems he also has a very anti-Ukraine stance (Audio from one of this podcasts https://v.redd.it/41xgvuri0vmd1/DASH_AUDIO_128.mp4)

I generally do not talk about my job on here, but corporations used to pay me to run seminars to help train their employees on spotting these types of attacks--mainly targeted psyops attacks from nation states to hack into their company via end user interaction.

Or in layman's terms, to help companies protect themselves from Russian Ransomware Thieves and Chinese Intellectual Property/Information collectors. Both of these being extensions of the Psychological Operations military divisions of each country.

I am really not sure how to end this post other than I am just trying to show people how real it is that the militaries of the world are spending obscene amounts of money in trying to influence your opinions and day to day life via your internet consumption.

Surf responsibility, be very wary of anyone telling you not to vote and don't believe everything you see/hear on TikTok/youtube/twitter/Insta etc etc

[byakuwan]

to everyone with ocs (I love u)

i'm too scared of getting personal to reblog the cool ask memes (?) so here is a somewhat similar one for ocs and/or characters in general. ... i did not finish the full alphabet, i am sorry. :')

reblog this and/or @ me and tell me about your oc in as many or as little as you want.

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A: what happens if they get shot in the forehead with the dying will bullet?

B: what team would they be on in the rainbow representative arc...

C: would they be able to protect enma from bullies in a high school AU.

D: would they like or dislike interacting with cervello.

E: what flame type would they have in an AU where they have a different one?

F: what happens when you apply the 10-Year Bazooka directly to their forehead...

G: would they do well in school if you put their memories of their future arc self into their current/present self. (if they already are, what % are they on tests?)

H: how well/decently/poorly would their life go if they were genuinely lambo and i-pin's age.

I: what would they hate the most to have as a box animal. or a different one.

J: black spell or white spell in millefiore?

K: disciplinary committee or liquidation committee?

L: what if YOUR character had the sky mare ring instead of byakuran. what would they do with it.

M: make them a leader regardless of their actual role and give them 6 guardians of any type, any characters. (you can do this monotype or 2 types or whatever you want... think of this like making a pokemon team if you want a metaphor.)

N: would they willingly be part of vindice?

O: would they be a victim of mist flame ransomware? would they even know what's going on...

P: what are the ranks they'd be #1 in if you had fuuta ask the ranking planet?

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... i'm tired and that's enough for now lmao.

[doawk]

spoilers below

au concept thingy where mephon didnt have the best experience generating animate objects, and as the seasons progressed he steady got better at Making them or something like that. the s1 people look like fucking fnaf ransomware things here, but nobody actually sees that since theres a sorta unintentional pyrovision-type thing up until the truth drops.

or whatever you guys like word salad Right. do you like my logo concepts too.

[xia0mi-c0m]

me when sex bots send me a message to a link of a website that obviously has malware on it (they think I'm dumb)

No but seriously, what if I was a minor?? This is why I need to remind y'all NOT TO CLICK LINKS THAT ARE NOT TRUSTED.

ALSO, RANT-ISH DISCUSSION OF MALWARE AND VIRUSES UNDER CUT.

The link can make you get malware of all kinds, including ransomware which basically locks your files in a cage for hours until you pay them with crypto or bitcoin. Half of the time, the administrator of the malware will forget the said malware and you'll lose all your files just like that. In the wise words of Till and Luka: Oh, in a blink gone. That's how quick your files will go. Seriously, be safe especially since these sort of malwares steal your information, including your address a lot of the times.

These sex bots don't send legitimate links, all of them are malware of some sort. They usually sell the information online too, since people do that often for some reason.

If your phone gets destroyed by a malware, it's going to be EXTREMELY expensive to fix the damages and you might have to buy a whole new phone if it was a destructive kind of virus. VPNs also should be recommended, much like what I use.

Also if you click on a website and it says "YOUR PHONE HAS BEEN INFECTED" don't click on ANYTHING and get off the website, go in history and and delete the website from it. Your phone is not infected, those sort of things are used to spark fear among gullible kids and they may also say to press something on the website, which, again, DON'T PRESS ON ANYTHING.

Even if you're testing it on a virtual machine, there is still a risk viruses and other malware can seep in-between the seems of your actual computer or phone. Even if you put multiple virtual machines and test them on the top machine, there is still a huge risk that isn't worth taking.

That virus or malware can be the new iloveyou worm, or wannacry situation, which if you know the damages those malware caused and how much money it costed for all the damages, you would know that's a bad thing.

If you don't know anything about these two malware, search up on YouTube the malwares in action and you'll see, or just search up videos talking about it. There's many explaining these viruses and other types of malwares.

If you want to see viruses in action, watch YouTubers doing it, don't do it yourself, don't let curiosity kill the cat and kill your device.

[disco-self-ships]

Traveler/Travis lore ^_^

Travis is an unmotivated guy who works a dead-end job and doesn't have much of a social life. He's all around an uninspired person EXCEPT for when he's in front of a computer. His big hobby/passion is writing ransomware to unleash on people/companies that piss him off in one way or another. He does it moreso for revenge and alleviating boredom than for the money; he doesn't demand much, he just enjoys humiliating his targets by exposing how shitty their system's defenses are. He has a few other hobbies that he half-asses (mainly chess) but he mostly just codes and works just enough to live.

Traveler is happy with his "career," his income, and for the most part his lifestyle, but he's deeply lonely. He can't share the secret details of his life with anyone and it's been wearing on him for a long time. Since he doesn't care much about morality anyway, he decides to find someone who's attractive to him and can be effectively blackmailed. When he looks into a small-time hacker he's caught wind of (Travis, ofc) he monitors (read: stalks) him for a while and decides that he's just what he's looking for. He gathers evidence of Travis's ransomware attacks and uses it to threaten him into meeting him and basically tells him: I want you to be my companion. It doesn't have to be romantic/sexual (but that'd be great wink wink), you just need to spend time with me and I won't turn you in. While we're both criminals, I'm a lot more dangerous than you, so don't try anything.

Travis is like

But what can he do? He goes along with it to save his own skin, but he's terrified of Traveler and does NOT want to be around him at first. Traveler is as about as creepy and manipulative as you'd expect a terrorist-for-hire that's blackmailing himself a companion to be. He loves to observe people, so there's a lot of silent staring that gives Travis the heebie jeebies lol. He also enjoys dropping hints about how long he's been stalking Travis before contacting him (<- MASSIVE creep lmao)

Travis does his best to act like a friend towards him but predictably, he starts to fall for him against his better judgment (<- ofc this is all going according to Traveler's plan.) Travis has always been a pretty lonely and isolated guy, so having such intense attention and attraction being aimed at him has a pretty big effect on him. And let's be honest, he finds Traveler very hot and interesting.

Traveler very intensely encourages (read: forces) Travis to improve on his hacking and hobbies bc as we see in the movie, he's very much a "DON'T BE A LOSER JUST DO IT!!!" type of person. Chess is an especially fraught topic between them bc Traveler is VERY good and really should be playing in competitions, but because he can't bring attention to himself, he insists that Travis become good enough to pose a real challenge to him instead.

Over time their relationship turns romantic and Travis gets used to how much of a freak Traveler is. He struggles with what Traveler does for work once Traveler trusts him enough to tell him about it but that's a whole plot line that I'm still working out in my head 🤔

Overall they become incredibly codependent and deeply obsessed with each other (´ᵕ`ʃƪ) Yay for my toxic freaks <3

[mariacallous]

Every year has its own mix of digital security debacles, from the absurd to the sinister, but 2024 was particularly marked by hacking sprees in which cybercriminals and state-backed espionage groups repeatedly exploited the same weakness or type of target to fuel their frenzy. For attackers, the approach is ruthlessly efficient, but for compromised institutions—and the individuals they serve—the malicious rampages had very real consequences for people's privacy, safety, and security.

As political turmoil and social unrest intensify around the world, 2025 will be a complicated—and potentially explosive—year in cyberspace. But first, here's WIRED's look back on this year's worst breaches, leaks, state-sponsored hacking campaigns, ransomware attacks, and digital extortion cases. Stay alert, and stay safe out there.

China's Salt Typhoon Telecom Breaches

Espionage operations are a fact of life, and relentless Chinese campaigns have been a constant in cyberspace for years now. But the China-linked espionage group Salt Typhoon carried out a particularly noteworthy operation this year, infiltrating a slew of US telecoms including Verizon and AT&T (plus others around the world) for months. And US officials told reporters earlier this month that many victim companies are still actively attempting to remove the hackers from their networks.

The attackers surveilled a small group of people—less than 150 by current count—but they include individuals who were already subject to US wiretap orders as well as state department officials and members of both the Trump and Harris presidential campaigns. Additionally, texts and calls from other people who interacted with the Salt Typhoon targets were inherently also caught up in the espionage scheme.

Snowflake Customer Breaches

Throughout the summer, attackers were on a tear, breaching prominent companies and organizations that were all customers of the cloud data storage company Snowflake. The spree barely qualifies as hacking, since cybercriminals were simply using stolen passwords to log in to Snowflake accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication turned on. The end result, though, was an extraordinary amount of data stolen from victims including Ticketmaster, Santander Bank, and Neiman Marcus. Another prominent victim, the telecom giant AT&T, said in July that “nearly all” records relating to its customers' calls and texts from a seven-month stretch in 2022 were stolen in a Snowflake-related intrusion. The security firm Mandiant, which is owned by Google, said in June that the rampage impacted roughly 165 victims.

In July, Snowflake added a feature so account administrators could make two-factor authentication mandatory for all of their users. In November, suspect Alexander “Connor” Moucka was arrested by Canadian law enforcement for allegedly leading the hacking spree. He was indicted by the US Department of Justice for the Snowflake tear and faces extradition to the US. John Erin Binns, who was arrested in Turkey for an indictment related to a 2021 breach of the telecom T-Mobile, was also indicted on charges related to the Snowflake customer breaches.

Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack

At the end of February, the medical billing and insurance processing company Change Healthcare was hit with a ransomware attack that caused disruptions at hospitals, doctor's offices, pharmacies, and other health care facilities around the US. The attack is one of the all-time largest breaches of medical data, impacting more than 100 million people. The company, which is owned by UnitedHealth, is a dominant medical billing processor in the US. It said days after the attack started that it believed ALPHV/BlackCat, a notorious Russian-speaking ransomware gang, was behind the assault.

Personal data stolen in the attack included patient phone numbers, addresses, banking and other financial information, and health records including diagnoses, prescriptions, and treatment details. The company paid a $22 million ransom to ALPHV/BlackCat at the beginning of March in an attempt to contain the situation. The payment seemingly emboldened attackers to hit health care targets at an even greater rate than usual. With ongoing, rolling notifications to more than 100 million victims—with more still being discovered—lawsuits and other blowback has been mounting. This month, for example, the state of Nebraska sued Change Healthcare, alleging that “failures to implement basic security protections” made the attack much worse than it should have been.

Russia's Midnight Blizzard Hit Microsoft

Microsoft said in January that it had been breached by Russia's “Midnight Blizzard” hackers in an incident that compromised company executives' email accounts. The group is tied to the Kremlin's SVR foreign intelligence agency and is specifically linked to SVR's APT 29, also known as Cozy Bear. After an initial intrusion in November 2023, the attackers targeted and compromised historic Microsoft system test accounts that then allowed them to access what the company said were “a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions.” From there, the group exfiltrated “some emails and attached documents.” Microsoft said that the attackers seemed to be looking for information about what the company knew about them—in other words, Midnight Blizzard doing reconnaissance on Microsoft's research into the group. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) also said in January that it had suffered a corporate email breach attributed to Midnight Blizzard.

National Public Data

The background check company National Public Data suffered a breach in December 2023, and data from the incident started showing up for sale on cybercriminal forums in April 2024. Different configurations of the data cropped up again and again over the summer, culminating in public confirmation of the breach by the company in August. The stolen data included names, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and dates of birth. Since National Public Data didn't confirm the breach until August, speculation about the situation grew for months and included theories that the data included tens or even hundreds of millions of Social Security numbers. Though the breach was significant, the true number of impacted individuals seems to be, mercifully, much lower. The company reported in a filing to officials in Maine that the breach affected 1.3 million people. In October, National Public Data's parent company, Jerico Pictures, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in the Southern District of Florida, citing state and federal investigations into the breach as well as a number of lawsuits that the company is facing over the incident.

Honorable Mention: North Korean Cryptocurrency Theft

A lot of people steal a lot of cryptocurrency every year, including North Korean cybercriminals who have a mandate to help fund the hermit kingdom. A report from the cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis released this month, though, underscores just how aggressive Pyongyang-backed hackers have become. The researchers found that in 2023, hackers affiliated with North Korea stole more than $660 million across 20 attacks. This year, they stole roughly $1.34 billion across 47 incidents. The 2024 figures represent 20 percent of total incidents Chainalysis tracked for the year and a whopping 61 percent of the total funds stolen by all actors.

The sheer domination is impressive, but the researchers emphasize the seriousness of the crimes. “US and international officials have assessed that Pyongyang uses the crypto it steals to finance its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles programs, endangering international security,” Chainalysis wrote.

[russ14n-r0ul3tt3]

Okay, repeat after me.

A VIRUS is run through a host program, and replicates itself on YOUR computer to cause damage or steal information.

A WORM is a standalone piece of malware that uses your device to spread to OTHER computers.

A TROJAN is a type of malware that deceives users about its true intent and does NOT inject itself into other files or devices.

RANSOMWARE is malware that hides away your information and demands payment to release it, or it will most commonly corrupt your files.

Sincerely,

A coder tired of calling all malware a virus

[coolbeesbro]

So I set up my new stuff on Etsy hoping I'll have better luck there and biting the bullet on listing fees, and already I've had 2 scammers in my inbox that start off making it sound like I just got a sale.

This is just 1 since I didn't think to screenshot the other before I marked it as spam, but that's just downright cruel. Taking advantage of someone who you can see hasn't made any sales, especially right now, takes a special kind of evil.

Although this goes without saying, just in case this is a PSA to others that sell on Etsy, do not follow any link or type any URL's that they ask you to.

Taking this opportunity to point this out (I didn't pick up on these parts before until I saw a video on TokTok) notice how they ask me to type in COM and not .com? It's usually small things like this that trick people into trusting it, because it look similar enough to be legitimate that some people (myself included at one time) won't think twice about it. Likely, this link would lead to somebody hacking into your device or account to steal information such as credit card and banking info that you might have attached or saved. The scary thing is, you may not even know you have one right away.

This also applies to other phishing scams, mainly pertaining to PayPal (I've gotten these emails many times). They (the hacker and not PayPal) send you a message that looks just plausible enough to trick somebody into thinking you just made a purchase, won't give any form of specification, and will have an attached PDF "receipt" that they ask you to click on. This usually tricks people into doing so because you think, "Hey, I didn't make any purchases with PayPal, what was ordered?" you click on it then BAM they can get into your system. I unfortunately did this myself once and my phone slowly stopped working over the course of a year, I started getting a lot of texts trying to get me to follow suspicious links, calls from the "FBI" and "IRS", and I had to change the passwords to all my accounts because the person even tried hacking into my actual PayPal account. My phone would get absurdly hot, and the full battery would last 4 hours at best.

Never click on a PDF document from any sketchy emails, because a virus can and will infect your device (computers and phones) by hiding malicious code in it. These forms of attack are usually in the form of spyware to track what you do on that device and collect your private information so the hacker can commit fraud or identity theft. It could also download ransomware and lock you out of your device unless you pay them, and also threaten to leak private information (some of which being outing someone LGBT+, leaking nudes, and doxing) to scare you into giving them what they want.

There's a way you can always tell if it's a scammer, and that's by checking the actual email. PayPal emails are always going to be one of these two: service@paypal.com or member@paypal.com. If you cant remember making a payment and get an email from one of these, it can still be a scammer that can change 1 or 2 letters subtly. For example: Service@paypal.com, member@PayPal.com. If you have any suspicions, just go straight to your PayPal account and check for any bills/receipts there. If you don't seen anything, it's best to report those emails to PayPal directly so they can either verify it as one of theirs (it won't be if it differs at all from the two I showed) and work towards flagging and taking it down for others later down the line who may be tricked.

Anyways, this has just been a PSA since something good can come from the asshole who sent me this message. Hope this can help at least 1 person.

[justdenys1]

on leathericecream's server we did a sort of secret santa type event, where we submitted a character we wanted to get drawn, and a killer that will be assigned to someone, and another person would have to combine the two. this one is for big godon, combing robot from etg and billy the puppet. bonus pic below

this was the first one i made before settling on the pose n all. the image on the pc is saw ransomware and pilot has to pay 500 dollars in bits of coins to survive

[lynxgriffin]

What would've happened if the mask was worn after the "sale"? Not specifically the part about Kris's Soul but the mask side of things. Because I'm getting a lot of bad vibes off the masks... assuming they even have any powers and aren't just empty junk wood. Because knowing computer spam, it could easily be a dark fantasy version of ransomware, botnet, or keylogger type of things..

That's mentioned a bit in the fine print that the Addison says quietly behind its pitch, but it does involve Kris's spirit being removed and losing their face. So yup, pretty bad vibes!

[ducktales-four-years]

By the way, if anyone is interested in writing a Boyd sickfic, or even a sickfic for robots in general, here are some ideas of how different types of malware can affect them, use these however you like!

▪︎First off, all malwares must have a simple, base symptom. Could be heating up, lagging, draining more battery than usual, something small that no one would notice right away.

▪︎ Bloatware: a collection of several, but not very dangerous symptoms, good if you just want to go the "it's just a cold" route.

▪︎ "Troll" viruses: causes random twitches and spasms, weapons get activated at random but do NOT fire, will probably cause mood swings or affect his emotions in general.

▪︎ Spyware: Definitively affects emotions, causes more intense spasms, records stuff at random, the defining symptom is the robot collecting and sending information to an unknown entity against their will or even without their knowledge, probably specifically designed by a villain.

▪︎Encryption: Dangerous. Attempts to delete files, but when unable to, they get encrypted instead. Causes gaps in the robot's memory, and might cause some of their features to malfunction, such as weapons firing at random. 

▪︎Ransomware: Extremely dangerous, time sensitive, life threatening. Completely shuts down and goes into a comatose state, and will die if the malware isn't removed in time. Definitively designed specifically FOR the target. Writing a script to break the ransomware is analogous to a surgery.

▪︎ Adware: Spamton.

[3handshakepvt]

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[mariacallous]

Over nearly a decade, the hacker group within Russia's GRU military intelligence agency known as Sandworm has launched some of the most disruptive cyberattacks in history against Ukraine's power grids, financial system, media, and government agencies. Signs now point to that same usual suspect being responsible for sabotaging a major mobile provider for the country, cutting off communications for millions and even temporarily sabotaging the air raid warning system in the capital of Kyiv.

On Tuesday, a cyberattack hit Kyivstar, one of Ukraine's largest mobile and internet providers. The details of how that attack was carried out remain far from clear. But it “resulted in essential services of the company’s technology network being blocked,” according to a statement posted by Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team, or CERT-UA.

Kyivstar's CEO, Oleksandr Komarov, told Ukrainian national television on Tuesday, according to Reuters, that the hacking incident “significantly damaged [Kyivstar's] infrastructure [and] limited access.”

“We could not counter it at the virtual level, so we shut down Kyivstar physically to limit the enemy's access,” he continued. “War is also happening in cyberspace. Unfortunately, we have been hit as a result of this war.”

The Ukrainian government hasn't yet publicly attributed the cyberattack to any known hacker group—nor have any cybersecurity companies or researchers. But on Tuesday, a Ukrainian official within its SSSCIP computer security agency, which oversees CERT-UA, pointed out in a message to reporters that a group known as Solntsepek had claimed credit for the attack in a Telegram post, and noted that the group has been linked to the notorious Sandworm unit of Russia's GRU.

“We, the Solntsepek hackers, take full responsibility for the cyber attack on Kyivstar. We destroyed 10 computers, more than 4 thousand servers, all cloud storage and backup systems,” reads the message in Russian, addressed to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and posted to the group's Telegram account. The message also includes screenshots that appear to show access to Kyivstar's network, though this could not be verified. “We attacked Kyivstar because the company provides communications to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as government agencies and law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. The rest of the offices helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine, get ready!”

Solntsepek has previously been used as a front for the hacker group Sandworm, the Moscow-based Unit 74455 of Russia's GRU, says John Hultquist, the head of threat intelligence at Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant and a longtime tracker of the group. He declined, however, to say which of Solntsepek’s network intrusions have been linked to Sandworm in the past, suggesting that some of those intrusions may not yet be public. “It's a group that has claimed credit for incidents we know were carried out by Sandworm,” Hultquist says, adding that Solntsepek's Telegram post bolsters his previous suspicions that Sandworm was responsible. "Given their consistent focus on this type of activity, it's hard to be surprised that another major disruption is linked to them.”

If Solntsepek is a front for Sandworm, it would be far from the first. Over its years of targeting Ukrainian infrastructure, the GRU unit has used a wide variety of covers, hiding behind false flags such as independent hacktivist groups and cybercriminal ransomware gangs. It even attempted to frame North Korea for its attack on the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Today, Kyivstar countered some of Solntsepek's claims in a post on X, writing that “we assure you that the rumors about the destruction of our ‘computers and servers’ are simply fake.” The company had also written on the platform that it hoped to restore its network's operations by Wednesday, adding that it's working with the Ukrainian government and law enforcement agencies to investigate the attack. Kyivstar's parent company, Veon, headquartered in Amsterdam, didn't respond to WIRED's request for more information.

While the fog of war continues to obscure the exact scale of the Kyivstar incident, it already appears to be one of the most disruptive cyberattacks to have hit Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion began in February 2022. In the year that followed, Russia launched more data-destroying wiper attacks on Ukrainian networks than have been seen anywhere else in the world in the history of computing, though most have had far smaller effects than the Kyivstar intrusion. Other major Russian cyberattacks to hit Ukraine over the past 20 months include a cyberattack that crippled thousands of Viasat satellite modems across the country and other parts of Europe, now believed to have been carried out by the GRU. Another incident of cybersabotage, which Mandiant attributes to Sandworm specifically, caused a blackout in a Ukrainian city just as it was being hit by missile strikes, potentially hampering defensive efforts.

It's not yet clear if the Kyivstar attack—if it was indeed carried out by a Russian state-sponsored hacker group—was merely intended to sow chaos and confusion among the company's customers, or if it had a more specific tactical intention, such as disguising intelligence-gathering within Kyivstar's network, hampering Ukrainian military communications, or silencing its alerts to civilians about air raids.

“Telecoms offer intelligence opportunities, but they're also very effective targets for disruption," says Mandiant's Hultquist. “You can cause significant disruption to people's lives. And you can even have military impacts.”

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about lorelei under the cut because i love her so much

lorelei came into being after the turn of the 20th century and the birth of the iloveyou malware. she is, in all capacity, the personification of all notorious computer viruses, malware, ransomware, etc & gains her power whenever there is a breach in any data or someone or something opens a computer virus and causes a chain reaction that causes multiple systems to become compromised.

she herself can make manifest all types of malicious data that humans have already created & can make her own, using her manifestations to wreak havoc when she's bored, but finds that "humans can be far more imaginative," so she very rarely does so [makes her own malicious data]. with her ability to create what humans have already did, she doesn't worry about the things she needs to act as human. why should she, as she can manipulate pos systems to make them think she actually paid for that five-thousand-dollar purchase?

lorelei has her own grand home (of course "acquired" in a not-so-legal way), and her bedroom is nothing but monitors and computers with wires decorating the floor. she turns herself into data and sleeps within her perfect setup, sometimes for hours on end. to many, she is just a normal person. lorelei also doesn't go out of her way to be intimidating or malicious on a physical level unless absolutely dire.

she gained even more power for herself by making herself a local legend on the dark web. she created an image of herself in true form and began to spread her status. for those that didn't believe, she gave them a less than savory surprise on their computers. not wanting to displease her, all took her information seriously. hackers pay reverence to her by creating all types of computer viruses and if lorelei deems their data worthy, she will reward her devotees with untraceable technology "somehow appearing at their doorstep" with no return recipient, make their creation known to the world, and will add their data to the long list of human-made viruses she uses.

but lorelei is not without weaknesses. if she sleeps inside a computer that has water thrown on it for any reason, she will awake electrocuted and angered. she would be unable to use her powers for a short period of time. if she is in an area where the humans around her know a thing or two about protecting their computers (ie, computer anti-virus software, etc), she will become violently sick and need to leave the area (because gross, people who know what they're doing) only feeling better once returning to her domain.

should the day humans truly find a way to eradicate all malicious data, she would once again become dormant until the next person finds a way to bring back what once was lost and continue the cycle.