Topic: Another ransom attack. How to solve these? (Read 513 times)

these are the questions that have been asked ever since 1989[1] when the first ransomware attack took place (hint: bitcoin was created in 2008). there are a lot of different ways of securing yourself against these types of attacks. as in prevention. you can do a google search and find many good articles about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware#History

well, bitcoin is money and like any other form of currency it will inevitably be used for many different things some of which are illegal.
the media loves these types of things so they put them under magnifying glass but in the end since it is a small part of bitcoin's usage, it won't matter.

This is one of the weakest links in human nature. Everything we do and invented that is supposedly for the good of all humankind there would be some people who can find ways to use them for evil purposes. And this is quite true now with Bitcoin. I am then suggesting that maybe the whole of the cryptocurrency community should start debating about this problem so we can come up with a community-wide accepted actions to deal with this problem. I mean it would be an insult to just sit down and do nothing for this menace which can affect all of us and the integrity of the cryptocurrency platform.

The only way to solve it is for people to not pay ransom to these terrorists.

If they can't make money off the attacks they'll stop the attacks. So how do we make that action possible? Back of your data, don't leave one device susceptible to attack, and people in general need to realize that if you give in to terrorists they will win...regardless of the cost to you.

If I'm not mistaken, if authorities really wanna track those hackers, then really do it. IRS is tracking does individual who are not paying taxes, so I guess its also possible for them to go after those hackers.

However, bitcoin is decentralized in nature and the hackers are using and exploited in a bad way. And the hackers will just used tumbling services to mix the coins which even makes it harder to trace.

The spate of ransoms attack has increased a lot over the last 12 months..if community do not bend to their demands i think it will stop

Unfortunately with everything that is great, someone will always look to manipulate it, use it against its intended purpose for self entitled purposes! What gets me is these kind of attackers are obviously extremely clever, why not use their skills to get a decent job?

"Three sets of hackers were hard at work over the Labor Day weekend using ransomware  to wipe about 26,000 MongoDB databases.
A "MongoDB ransacking" spreadsheet created by researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers - the latter of whom along with Niall Merrigan discovered an earlier deluge of attacks - showed a single group that uses "[email protected]” is responsible for 22,000 of the accounts hacked, ZDnet reported.
"We have your data. Your database is backed up to our servers," the message to victims read. "If you want to restore it, then send 0.15 BTC and text me to email, just send your IP-address and payment info. Messages without payment info will be ignored."
The group responsible for ransacking 3,500 databases sent victims a similar message. "If you want to recover your data, then send 0.05 BTC to bitcoin-address and send your IP to our email. You don't want that your users/customers to know that you have a data leak, right?" ZDnet reported the group, which uses the email address "[email protected]" as saying."
Link : https://www.scmagazine.com/labor-day-ransomware-attacks-wipe-26000-mongodb-databases/article/686409/

I am a person that likes technology, so found this about one of the databases that I am studying lately(MongoDB), and saw once more a ransom attack asking to pay in bitcoin. I, being an working IT, know that we should secure our databases from the network, make time to time backups, but breaches may happen. How will this kind of ransom attacks be solved? Is it possible to track somehow, or atleast start thinking about a tracker for these kind of ransom attacks?
This is bad publicity for cryptoworld, especially for bitcoin, and this kind of illegalities should be thinked before corporates start banning bitcoin, or it gets to deep in the dark web.