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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:49 ADT
Black Unicorn (unicorn@schloss.li)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:21:07 -0500
At 08:22 PM 6/17/98 , Simon R Knight wrote:
>On 17 Jun 98 at 14:26, bram wrote:
>
>> I'd be more interested in seeing one which remained harmless until it
>> breached the security of a specific target company, then snarfed the root
>> password and posted it encrypted to a usenet newsgroup.
>
>Like a "harvester" virus ?
>
>I recently read that a number of UK and European banks had been
>attacked by a sophisticated kind of virus/program. This virus
>apparently worked by encrypting the banks more important files, and a
>fee of 10 million was reportedly required, before the perpetrators
>would provide the decryption key. As the cost of downtime to such
>banks can quickly exceed a figure of 10 million, they pay up. The
>UK police said that banks weren't reporting such incidents, and
>making there job very difficult.
Are you trolling? This was exposed as a hoax almost immediately after the
rumor emerged.
It's also getting off topic for CodherPlunks.
>
>Simon R Knight
>
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:18:49 ADT