[Info-vax] Some attackers are going after older operating systems

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-10-21 12:11:47 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2021-10-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A while back one of our customers had a problem.  Apparently someone 
>> got to at least one of the WEENDOZE PCs in the accounting department 
>> with a KB logger.
>> ...
>> Never came near the VMS system, which runs everything,...
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> That you know of.


I've been directly involved in cleaning up after two ransomware attacks 
against OpenVMS, and in cleaning up after various other OpenVMS 
security breaches.

These projects are not fun, as OpenVMS provides no built-in or support 
tools for verifying system integrity and whether the changes were 
accidental or malicious.



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