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Research Lab Hit With Ransomware Attack After Student Installs Pirated Software
By Tyler Lee, on 05/07/2021 01:52 PDT
hackOfficial software can be expensive, which is why sometimes people turn to piracy because they have no choice. This isn’t to say that this is a justified alternative, but it happens. Unfortunately for a European biomolecular research institute, it seems that one of the decisions by a student working at the lab has resulted in a ransomware attack.
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According to the report, one of the university students that the lab works with decided to download a pirated version of a data visualization software from a warez site. However, it turns out that this pirated version of the software was actually a trojan in disguise that logged keystrokes, stole clipboard history, and passwords.