I remembered back in the day, there was a virus where a small cat appeared on the screen and chase your mouse cursor. If it caught your mouse cursor, the computer would crash. It did no other damage. It was great fun.
On Linux we have a harmless version of that: Oneko.
Anon just started mining crypto.
oh man. back in school we made a lot of dumb shit like this. friend got a box of 128mb usb sticks with erroneous branding and we put autorun ‘viruses’ that just spammed popups, opened the cd drive, played weird sounds, etc.
same day as we left them in various places in the school there was an announcement not to use “fake usb sticks” found in the building because they have viruses
Were you vacationing in Iran in 2008-09 by any chance?
It’s a good warning (you hope). You clearly grabbed shady software. If you’re lucky it’s not malicious, this time.
When you’re white hat, but you feel a little silly sometimes
Chaotic good.
Congratulations you have successfully identified the ransomware in this training exercise.
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looks in Task Manager
“What the hell is ‘suspicious.exe?’”
Welcome to the botnet!
MakeThemShitBrixx.exe
