What No Beer? COVID-19 and Ransomware To Blame?
Almost all of us have had the thought, … “If I do this, will I get caught?”, and for many, if the answer is “No”, we would probably have done a few things differently. But we are always brought back from the brink, and where we know if we are caught doing something bad, we are likely to end up in trouble. But there’s one crime which is almost perfect, and the chance of it paying back is extremely high, and the chances of getting caught are extremely low. And that is … ransomware.
If you have no back-ups, once your files are encrypted with a key, you have very little chance of getting them back. Here is a typical process, and where each file is taken, and then encrypted with AES (using GCM mode — to make things faster), and then where the key used is encrypted with the public key for the adversary (Eve):
But, you say, who cares? Well, at the most extreme case, the ransomware could cost lives, especially in a health care environment. And in Australia this week, the Lion brewer — one of the largest beer suppliers in Australia and New Zealand — was attacked with ransomware:
Our investigations to date have shown that a system outage has been caused…
