Ask HN: What's next after ransomware

2 pointsby eyer201610 anni fa5 comments

In the security space, it looks like these things come and go in batches. Rootkits were the rage a few years back, APT was on top not so long ago and these days, it's ransomware.

What's going to be it tomorrow? IoT threats?

3 comments

Raed66710 anni fa

This would be an interesting AI exercise:

Train a model that gets personal IoT data (wearable sensors, lights activity, toaster, fridge, etc..) to automatically detect personalized "shameful" behavior (infidelity, etc) that can be extorted against bitcoin.

joeclark7710 anni fa

Pizzaware. Order a large Hawaiian pizza and a 2-liter diet coke delivered to the following address, and we'll unlock your computer.

cesarbs10 anni fa

I suspect that pizza would be delivered by a police car :)

joeclark7710 anni fa

I bet there's a way to make it work though. Somebody amongst HN's readers has got to have an ingenious work-around.

throwawayReply10 anni fa

Does that make the next evolution swat-ware, where you take it a level deeper and threaten them to become the recipient?

[deleted]10 anni fa