Comment on USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide

mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is like when I assumed my high school IT department was so good that I’d never be able to get past their content restrictions, but then renaming Halo CE to “explorer.exe” let me play all the games I wanted.

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  • June@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had FF3 broken up into a few files and renamed and disbursed through the school network so I’d just pull them all into a local file at the computer I was working at in the lab and play during class. I thought I was the shit.

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  • sour@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    norton family:

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  • digger@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Renaming it to “winword.exe” was my go-to.

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, it’s pretty smart to exploit the flaws in VB to make malware.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s pretty smart to exploit the flaws in Microsoft to make malware.

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    • tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Haha touché

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• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are they? Because if the worm is successfully spreading… 🤷

  It’s funny, though…

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re Russians. There’s no situation where they aren’t suffering.

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    • Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’ve been exporting their suffering to Ukraine the last few years as well.

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• thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not following. VBScript seems like the right tool. Why would they use something else? They’re generally light years beyond US defense capabilities so there’s a real dearth of suffering on their side.

  Now if the joke is that they’re suffering because they have to use VBScript, I can get behind that

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  • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    WScript.Echo “Just saying if I was invited onto a team intent on wreaking havoc upon our enemies, I would probably quit after 100 lines of calling windows apis in VBScript” & vbNewLine

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    • thesmokingman@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      tbh I think VBScript is more pleasant to write than C in many cases

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      • mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nothing wrong with that! VB isn’t fundamentally bad, I’m just accustomed to C family langs

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• Numberone@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As a non programmer, isn’t visual basic for Excell scripts?

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  • deur@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No you can run any .vbs script standalone

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