ate all the Oreos posted:

npr this morning had some chucklefuck "bitcoin forensics company" talking about how they've discovered hints that wannacry might be from north korea!!!!!!

don't ask why we came to this conclusion just think about scary north korea!!!!

Dex posted:

lmao

fins posted:

hmm, idea for some niche ransomware. target audiophiles and reencode all their lossless files as 64 kbps mp3s

fins posted:

hmm, idea for some niche ransomware. target audiophiles and reencode all their lossless files as 64 kbps mp3s

Phone posted:

didn't real have an audio format? .rma?

Phone posted:

didn't real have an audio format? .rma?

RFC2324 posted:

didn't real player finally die?

fishmech posted:

realplayer yet lives

RFC2324 posted:

what? how? who?

Phone posted:

[[[BUFFERING INTENSIFIES]]]

ate all the Oreos posted:

npr this morning had some chucklefuck "bitcoin forensics company" talking about how they've discovered hints that wannacry might be from north korea!!!!!!

don't ask why we came to this conclusion just think about scary north korea!!!!

Phone posted:

didn't real have an audio format? .rma?

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

for a very liberal definition of "lives" i would assume

haveblue posted:

that is not dead which can eternal buffer

fishmech posted:

realplayer is still realnetworks' primary business and here's their latest annual report:

RFC2324 posted:

Thats like 3 dudes not getting paid very well.

RFC2324 posted:

Thats like 3 dudes not getting paid very well.

fishmech posted:

uh if that was just 3 dudes, they'd each be getting over 33 million a year as of 2015 lol

Instant Grat posted:

oh poo poo i missed this part

anthonypants posted:

one guy in r&d making 70k, sales guy making 111k, and an admin making 37k

fishmech posted:

not only did you gently caress up the thousands, you're looking at 2011 instead of 2015

Progressive JPEG posted:

Your Linux iso and midi collections however are not

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/what-you-need-know-about-wannacry-ransomware

Symantec has uncovered two possible links that loosely tie the WannaCry ransomware attack and the Lazarus group:

Co-occurrence of known Lazarus tools and WannaCry ransomware: Symantec identified the presence of tools exclusively used by Lazarus on machines also infected with earlier versions of WannaCry. These earlier variants of WannaCry did not have the ability to spread via SMB. The Lazarus tools could potentially have been used as method of propagating WannaCry, but this is unconfirmed.

Shared code: As tweeted by Google’s Neel Mehta, there is some shared code between known Lazarus tools and the WannaCry ransomware. Symantec has determined that this shared code is a form of SSL. This SSL implementation uses a specific sequence of 75 ciphers which to date have only been seen across Lazarus tools (including Contopee and Brambul) and WannaCry variants.

While these findings do not indicate a definite link between Lazarus and WannaCry, we believe that there are sufficient connections to warrant further investigation. We will continue to share further details of our research as it unfolds.

ate all the Oreos posted:

isn't it really obvious right now that wannacry is just "other people's tools wrapped up with a poorly written front-end"? how is this news?

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

because none of this makes sense given the timeline of initial variant publicly appearing in february

https://twitter.com/threatintel/status/864504502682099716

fishmech posted:

anyway it seems that what realnetworks and realplayer is used for a lot now, is internal company "broadcasting" stuff for a lot of places, as well as powering streaming for certain smart tv apps and poo poo like that? seems like it's a pretty robust thing that they can leech off of for years to come, even though normal users aren't going to use realplayer directly

Pikavangelist posted:

Phone posted:

Pikavangelist posted:

in my defense, someone building a vape that runs windows is nowhere near as implausible these days as it should be