I have heard radio stories about government organisations being victims of ransomware. Why don't they quarantine incoming emails on to a single notebook?
Because the hackers know they are using cheap older hardware and software, and its cheaper for them to pay the money than to buy all new stuff. Stick a gun in a rich man's face, and he'll give you the shirt off his back. Stick the gun in my face, and he'll complain taxes are too high and that you are doing God's work weeding out the poor.
You can have a completely secure network running Windows 2000 server or XP. Just need a decent LAN setup with firewall and data backup. The main problem is these organizations are polluted with lazy stupid bureaucrats who need to play Farmville and surf Wish.com on the taxpayers dime.
So usually there are some central mail servers, and they can quarantine attachments fairly well. Usually it's emails with links which some dope clicks on and they do a drive by on an individual laptop, and the worm through the network. Or many other attack vectors.
Sadly, most hackers merely call the people on the phone and ask for the information they need to hack their computers. Its all just money doing all the driving, and there's no way to protect corrupt governments and corporations from corruption and stupidity.
Right, and you're inaccurate. The MS-ISAC Top 10 Malware refers to the top 10 new actionable event notifications of non-generic malware signatures sent out by the MS-ISAC Security Operations Center (SOC). Dropped – Malware delivered by other malware already on the system, an exploit kit, infected third-party software, or manually by a cyber threat actor. Multiple – Refers to malware that currently favors at least two vectors. Malspam – Unsolicited emails, which either direct users to download malware from malicious websites or trick the user into opening malware through an attachment. Network – Malware introduced through the abuse of legitimate network protocols or tools, such as SMB or remote PowerShell. Top 10 Malware January 2019
lazy sysadmins, stupid employees, coward politicians. that's how here the town hall offices were hit by Wannacry ransomware. The major wanted to switch to linux so he called me but then he chickened out and only wasted some of my time. sysadmins are there to avoid this kind of crap but they were only interested in keeping foreigners out of their lousy ecosystem, so well, whatever.
A few years ago I got a text msg. saying some guys were going to lock my comp if I did not pay them . I asked them what operating system I used . As there guess was windows 8 and not Linux Mint , I knew they had no idea that they were talking about .
Microsoft cares 'so' much about YOUR security that it has REMOTE ACCESS enabled by default. For YOUR convenience, of course!!
