“All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers” – RSA-2048/AES-128 ransomware

RSA-2048/AES-128 makes a very strong combination of crypto schemes.

Even if applied on stand-alone basis, those tools readily withhold your data so that any brute-forcing is just a waste of time. Now, the crooks have applied the two scripts at once. One of these serves to ensure the data remains affected for good, meaning the data stored within the file. The other aims at the filename. The victims cannot distinguish between the affected items, yet cannot open one to see what is within.
The virus creates an alert titled as follows:

‘All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers’

‘All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers’ message by Locky
‘All of your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 and AES-128 ciphers’ message by Locky
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OTB 1.1.2 iPhone unlock is coming soon!

Some more interesting news in the battle against out-of-the-box 1.1.2 iPhones!
Here is a small clarification of the problem, and the current status.

All the US iPhones that came on week 45 and after have the 1.1.2 firmeware,
with the new bootloader version 4.6. Those phones can still be jailbroken and activated,
but there is no software sim unlock solution yet.

The new 4.6 bootloader has fixed the exploit allowing to run unsigned code,
reflash modem baseband firmware. This new bootloader must be analysed, so it
has to be dumped!

TA_MOBILE from Vietnam has successfully dumped it!

Files are available!

Write NTFS with MACFuse

This one is for multi OS addicts like me.
I have a triple boot with 2 versions of OS X86 and Windows XP.
So how do I exchange files between OS X86 and Windows systems?

Under Windows XP, I use MacDrive to read/write HFS+ partitions.
But under OS X86, I must use a FAT32 partition to write data on a windows partition.
NTFS is not supported in writing mode.

I really want to get rid of that FAT32 partition and avoid the max 4 gigs file size limitation.
So here is the solution, use MACFuse to write to NTFS file system.

MacWorld 2007 Predictions

Many bloggers already started throwing their predictions on what’s going to be
unvealed by Steve on January 9th in his MacWorld 2007 keynote.

I’m feeling lazy today so I will just throw a few keywords here:

  • Leopard release date
  • iTV
  • iPhone / no iPhone
  • iLife / iWork ‘07
  • 8-core mac pro
  • Macbook Pro redesign
  • Blue-Ray drives
  • Smaller Macbooks (12″)
  • Widescreen touch sensitive iPods
  • The one more thing

For those who will assist to MacWorld, go there: www.sharemacworld.com

or send your comments, pictures, videos to macosxgeek@gmail.com