{"id":449,"date":"2020-07-29T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unordnung.net\/?p=449"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:46:34","slug":"ransomeware-in-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/2020\/07\/ransomeware-in-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomeware in 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The german &#8220;Die Drei Fragezeichen&#8221; (The three ???, a fictional detective trio from german audio drama for kids, which is popular among adults nowadays) investigated in a floppy disc driven malware attack in the episode 056\/Angriff der Computer-Viren (Attack of the computer viruses). Funnily the whole threat model reminds heavily of todays ransomewares. The three detective&#8217;s pc gets infected by a virus. It originated from a programmer visiting their schools computer club and while investigating they find that he is attacking his employer, making all files on the companies computers &#8220;useless&#8221; and only his virus killer application can recover their files. A Message gets shown on the screen of the infected pc&#8217;s including a ransom demand. Sounds pretty familar imo \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/diedrei.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-451\"\/><figcaption>Check the episode <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3fotka2Hbq0N7V9KKWIDdw\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3fotka2Hbq0N7V9KKWIDdw<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In RL ransomeware got popular starting 2005 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware#History\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ransomware#History<\/a> so they we&#8217;re pretty ahead of their time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The german &#8220;Die Drei Fragezeichen&#8221; (The three ???, a fictional detective trio from german audio drama for kids, which is popular among adults nowadays) investigated in a floppy disc driven malware attack in the episode 056\/Angriff der Computer-Viren (Attack of the computer viruses). Funnily the whole threat model reminds heavily of todays ransomewares. The three &#8230; <a title=\"Ransomeware in 1992\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/2020\/07\/ransomeware-in-1992\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ransomeware in 1992<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unordnung.net\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}