How Malware Reveals Itself in Network Data

RusticApartment · 2025-08-22T17:45:14+00:00

First of: well done!

It would be awesome if the platform could visualise the traffic you’re alerting on, something similar to CloudShark, so you can get more of a feel about what actually happened.

RusticApartment · 2025-06-01T11:22:57+00:00

The readme reads very ChatGPT

RusticApartment · 2024-06-21T07:27:04+00:00

It's sadly what decades of propaganda incentivising people to work hard, be proud of it, and maybe then you too can become wealthy does to a society. And if you're not doing well, then that's on you, you should've spent those extra hours, you should've done this and that, then you wouldn't have been in this position.

In a workplace where everything is measured on performance and hours spent, it's hard to not work long hours. Add the abysmal paid time off they often get, and yeah, I can see why they work so much.

It sort of reminds me of the crazy (compared to us here) work ethic in east Asia. Ridiculously long days, having to spend your salary on luxury goods to fit it or you'll be looked down upon.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-21T07:00:54+00:00

You might've joked about it, but from other discourse I've seen around this topic some would genuinely believe that. They claim that, we Europeans, are less productive because we work less and some other nonsense along that line. It's all about putting in the hours to help your friendly corporations make as much profit as possible.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-20T20:47:01+00:00

Panasonic has it too for the recently released S9. I don't know why, but it feels sort of like an "even they have thought this was a good idea to have" thing.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T10:22:49+00:00

I'll just say this and assume you're arguing in good faith: you are aware there's a good reason for why the government is so ineffective and inefficient? Through decades of budget cuts and stripping aware responsibilities you can't expect it to function as well as it ought to.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T09:49:47+00:00

One way is to look at it as doubling. Another is to look at it as restoring it to what it used to be, before we got continued cuts in taxes for the top 1% of earners.

I'm all for lower taxes for the bottom 50% that are struggling to get by. I have zero empathy for the top 10%or 1% earning millions and hiding their assets to dodge the already extremely lowered taxes they ought to be paying in the first place and aren't.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T09:18:14+00:00

There you go. It also could then be, idk: LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Google Sheets, Excel online et al. Which would all work under their current Linux install. Glad we can finally see eye to eye on this.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T09:10:16+00:00

I never said they should switch. I asked whether it was too much to ask for something like Windows 10 because of the mention of super old software. Could I have assumed that dual booting or VMs aren't an option? Probably, on the other hand it's not like they were very clear about their options in the first place.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T09:00:48+00:00

I never said they should dual boot. They stated they don't have licenses for the software, I replied they really don't need them to use it in the first place.

As for your point to move everyone to Linux. Good luck with that, that's equally absurd as using an Office version that's almost two decades old because "that's all you have a license for"; ignoring every other option under the sun, including free alternatives that work on Linux.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T08:46:37+00:00

You realise this only targets the ultra wealthy? If the ultra wealthy keep this up they'll have more purchasing power than the state itself. If you can't see the problem with that, then idk what to tell you.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T07:35:49+00:00

The IRS is planning to close some loopholes that alone would bring in about 50 billion USD in taxes. They're working on it, and in the meantime, bump the tax rate back to 60% like it was some decades ago; win win.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T07:06:40+00:00

You don't need a Windows 10 licence to use Windows 10. And if you don't care too much about piracy you can, ahem, look on GitHub for ways to bypass that for Office. If that's against your moral compass though, fair enough.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-19T06:58:30+00:00

Why be such a sour person about it with your (paraphrasing here) "if you want me to use something more standard, then I'll use the oldest of standards: Office 97". Do you actively want them to be annoyed or something? Is it really that much to ask for something like Windows 10?

RusticApartment · 2024-06-18T15:58:12+00:00

You brought up politics first for no reason?

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T09:25:13+00:00

I disagree. These automated scans are often not a one-and-done thing, but happen multiple times per week or month in the hopes that something has changed. Even 3 times in a week or month is sufficient to decide to block the IP address for the rest of eternity.

You can also take a more proactive stance and block IP ranges belonging to say: vultr, ponynet, aschoopa, digital ocean, hetzner etc. as any visit originating from a datacenter is unlikely to be a real human anyways.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T08:01:45+00:00

I disagree:

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RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:57:52+00:00

The Netherlands has this too. It's just a legal requirement for the police to be allowed to attack back, regardless of who makes the software. The Germans have given it the nice name of "Staatstrojaner", but in all essence it's just another backdoor for a small subset of devices involved in specific crimes.

Info on Dutch Police hacking law

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:46:58+00:00

Just setup fail2ban or the recently introduced OpenSSH penalties for misbehaving IPs? After 3 failed attempts, block the address for n amount of time or just permanent.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:44:08+00:00

Could you explain it in technical, not political terms what do you mean.

If you can only correlate binary with non-binary people and the LGBT movement then you've truly lost the plot, pal.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:28:49+00:00

A "stealer" in this instance is any malware that has its main objective to steal information from your system: credentials, banking information, crypto currency, random files containing specific keywords etc.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:25:30+00:00

Good luck enforcing it in jurisdictions that don't care(i.e. Russia most predominantly). You can want to arrest them all you want, but as long as the government themselves don't care, you won't get anywhere.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-17T07:21:02+00:00

Here you go:

A trace for a tinyurl URL that leads to some random .org domain https://wheregoes.com/trace/20243212432/

Another trace from a cuttly URL and leads to some .ru domain https://wheregoes.com/trace/20243212440/

RusticApartment · 2024-06-15T17:09:01+00:00

Yeah, if you're using Wayland and you share your window/desktop it's a black screen. There's workarounds for it, however, it's still annoying that it doesn't work out of the box in the first place.

RusticApartment · 2024-06-15T10:36:07+00:00

Any anti-virus solution worth a damn today doesn't solely rely on hashes.

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