{"id":11093,"date":"2020-04-27T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/?p=11093"},"modified":"2020-04-27T22:34:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T20:34:21","slug":"ransom-ware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/ransom-ware\/","title":{"rendered":"ransom | ware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">the following screenshot is an email which entered my spam folder today. i have a &#8222;sense&#8220; for emails with a bad intent and tend to delete them straight away. but this one caught my attention because in the subject line and in the first line of the email i found a password which i often used in the past. the password was not depicted completely correct, a lower\/uppercase variation was missing, but basically it was quite a shock. image you&#8217;ve used a password like, say, 666the-Devil, hundreds of times, and then an email arrives which states: i know, 666the-devil [lowercase d] is your password \u2013 this would trigger alarm bells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ransomMail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ransomMail.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ransomMail.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ransomMail-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>ransomware<\/em><br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">the spam attack was \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinabuse.com\/reports\/bc1qja0cn6wetuznpy5gynm3r74rtp3pvs622jhgjq\">easy to google<\/a>. this invasion vector is well known. but the password riddled me. until i found out that it was from a  yahoo breach which ran through the years 2013\u201317. basically all yahoo accounts were hacked, and obviously the passwords were spread all over the darknet. i changed my password long ago, but it&#8217;s still stunning to read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">oh, my PC has no camera. sorry, you greedy black hat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the following screenshot is an email which entered my spam folder today. i have a &#8222;sense&#8220; for emails with a bad intent and tend to delete them straight away. but this one caught my attention because in the subject line and in the first line of the email i found a password which i often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"wp-worthy-pixel":{"ignored":false,"public":null,"server":null,"url":null},"wp-worthy-type":"normal","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11096,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11093\/revisions\/11096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maxschoenherr.de\/clock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}