Describing how criminals are making money from malware they have written.

1. UNDERGROUND MALWARE
ECONOMY
GUY NGONGANG, Digital Forensics and Incident response
@malware28
@guy_hacker

2. Brain, the first computer virus was written by Basit and Amjad in 1986. Replacing
the boot sector of a floppy disk with a copy of the virus

3. Ransomware, sign of infection

4. Wannacry has infected Deutsche Bahn in Germany. It had two components a
ransomware and a worm propagating through the network using SMBv1 vulnerability

5. While navigating the dark web, found a website where you can buy and
customise your ransomware. The malware‘s authors are taking 10% from the
money paid on each infected computer.

6. nRansom, asking for Nudes

7. Fake Spectre and Meltdown Patch disguised as
Smoke loader malware

8. Monero the open source cryptocurrency

9. Jackpotting, FAJIN-DIAZ ALBERTO FAJIN-DIAZ, 31, a citizen of Spain and ARGENYS RODRIGUEZ, 21, of Springfield
were arrested on related state charges on January 27,2018.

10. Denis Zayev in Stavropol, Russia
The scam was simple: after the malware was installed on the IT systems, a gas tank would be left empty on
purpose so some of the fuel that customers bought would be diverted to the empty tank. Customers would get
less fuel than they paid for, while employees resold the fuel collected in the empty tank.

11. Hancock Hospital Paid the ransom

12. Maersk Disaster Recovery time after being infected with NotPetya was 10 days

13. STAY SECURE
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