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Titre: [kreb]Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
Posté par: igor51 le mai 17, 2021, 17:00:04
Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

In a Twitter discussion last week on ransomware attacks, KrebsOnSecurity noted that virtually all ransomware strains have a built-in failsafe designed to cover the backsides of the malware purveyors: They simply will not install on a Microsoft Windows computer that already has one of many types of virtual keyboards installed -- such as Russian or Ukrainian. So many readers had questions in response to the tweet that I thought it was worth a blog post exploring this one weird cyber defense trick.
Source: Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/)