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Ransomware has gone down because sanctions against Russia are making life harder for attackers
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That’s the truth. The number of rejected connections to our firewall from eastern europe IP addresses has decreased about 50%.
Kind of amazing it takes this kind of effort to even reduce hacking by a bit.
This is very similar to how spam/scam calls dropped when India went into lockdown from Covid
IT guy in healthcare, it was nuts here just before the ~~war~~ invasion, we use RSA for everything and are constantly getting hammered.
Executive email accounts were being locked they were trying to brute force them and we had so many other security initiatives that just stopped mid project after the invasion.
Hope it stays this way for a while, I’d love to see them beef up security here even more, and buy us some time.
I love how this is in uplifting news.
Well, I have only gotten 1 call this week about the new changes in RPS policy instead of the usual 5-6 I would have normally gotten.
And I’m not sad about that
The internet has been bombed with so much garbage I just assume 100% of people are scammers, online or not.
The amount of login attempts from Russia into my steam account has dropped dramatically
Since they normally request payment in cryptocurrency .. how do Russian sanctions block this ?
I have 30 years in IT with 20 in cyber security, Ukraine and Russia both had been the main attackers against US properties. LOT of skilled black hats there.
Probably should have sanctioned the piss out of them over their hacking efforts over 10 years ago
I used to get 100+ spam emails per day, but lately it’s dropped to about 5. I wonder if this is related?
it’s almost like Russia is a criminal state run and owned by the mob
Good. Some idiots used ransomware to attack Kronos, resulting in my coworkers and I getting shorted hundreds of dollars each paycheck for months. I’m not sure if they were Russians, but just it decreasing at all makes me happy.
Good. Fuck those guys
And suddenly certain subreddits that used to be on the front page now struggle to get more than 1K upvotes… hmmm… I wonder how this will spill into the midterm election funds…
So, something could’ve been done about it?
On the one hand I don’t want the citizens of Russia who are against this invasion to suffer but on the other hand there is this
Russia needs to be exiled by the entire world
Now we need to do the same to India to stop half the scam calls.
Can’t we just unplug Russia’s modem once and for all? They can have a shared internet with north korea or something to talk about how well they are both doing.
Now if we could just do india, we would bring a good portion of customer service jobs back and get rid of a huge portions of scam callers!
Who knew an illegal war with sanctions against the aggressor country was all it took to get ransomware to quell?
Ok, so I know next to nothing about hacking and these sanctions, so this might be dumb. However, isn’t all that’s needed to get around the sanctions a VPN? Wouldn’t anyone with the knowledge to do hacking be able to set up a VPN, or is it more difficult than that?
Good. Fuck Putin. Fuck Russia.
Can we do India next? Tired of God damn scammers.
West: *sanctions*
Russia: “Fine! We’ll sanction back!”
West: *benefits*
<insert surprised comrade pikachu meme>
Amazing what types of Russian imports we are missing out in now.
fuck sending a glitter bomb to india.
the complete isolation and economic destruction of your nation for you and your children’s children is the best prank you can play on scammers
Meanwhile.. I am getting more texts than ever saying my account with a bank I don’t bank with has frozen my account do to fraud and send a link I’m supposed to click.
Ever wonder why memes always look like shit?
*Indians walking away whistling*
Keep them out forever