Time to break out your teeniest, tiniest violin
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 10/03/2021 - 5:53pmNot all cybercriminals are equal.
Some of them are really smart, and some of those smart guys join up with the mafia.
This essay is not about them.
Not all cybercriminals are equal.
Some of them are really smart, and some of those smart guys join up with the mafia.
This essay is not about them.
"Russian hackers."
What is actually implied is that the Russian hackers were really working out of the Kremlin.
MSNBC and CNN will come out and tell you that Putin personally hacked our computers, while Washington will never correct them.
But they know better. They always knew better.
Animated map of how tens of thousands of computers were infected with ransomware https://t.co/LDFCW9K5Ls pic.twitter.com/E5Ep9KesaV
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 13, 2017
Ransomware has been a global plague for years, but today it hit a new peak.