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Comment · 6 years ago
I found this comment about the "shock" experienced by the author interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098

> If you read the profile the New Yorker published about us last year, you'll find the author's own shock experience of HN encoded into that article (and it's something of a miracle of openness and intelligence that she was able to get past that—the shock experience really is that bad).

Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
Hm, I possibly misused the term "amateurish" when I meant "simple". My apologies for the confusion.
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not denying its effectiveness, just remarking on its technical merit as a topic of discussion. Once the system is already compromised it becomes less about the payload and more about the attack vector involved. If the payload in question was using novel techniques then it would be a different story but the analysis shows the program to be relatively rudimentary.
Comment · 6 years ago
> Each sample of the malware contains a hardcoded name of the victim organization.

> Apart from encrypting the files and leaving ransom notes, the sample has none of the additional functionality that other threat actors tend to use in their Trojans: no C&C communication, no termination of running processes, no anti-analysis tricks, etc.

> Curiously, the ELF binary contains some debug information, including names of functions, global variables and source code files used by the malware developers.

Seems pretty amateurish...

Comment · 6 years ago
If you have colorful icons you'll need to duplicate the resources to account for light and dark variants unless you prefer sub-optimal legibility. If you emphasize color as a method of representing state you'll need to adjust by shipping images for each state value. With monochrome icons the emphasis is placed on shape so you can efficiently render the whole icon in a different color without obfuscating its meaning.

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