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Watership downtime: BadRabbit encrypts Russian media, Ukraine transport hub PCs

bombastic bob Silver badge
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Re: Like all software

these days, "software" often means "slap together a bunch of 3rd party CRAPware into 'something' and call it 'an app'".

BadRabbit is like that, according to the article anyway.

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'Rabbit' is already a hacker term for "any hack that includes infinite self-replication" [according to online resources]. The alleged history is from a "hack called RABBITS reported from 1969 on a Burroughs 55000 at the University of Washington Computer Center".

http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/wabbit

So the author is slapping TERMS together, too. How. Creative. NOT.

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