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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/21/2021 12:10 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-10-21 12:11:47 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
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>> On 2021-10-20, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
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>>> 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,...
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>> That you know of.
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> I've been directly involved in cleaning up after two ransomware attacks against OpenVMS, and in cleaning up after various other OpenVMS security breaches.
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> 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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I was not implying that VMS could not be affected.  Just that in this case obscurity
just happened to be a friend.  Better lucky than good.  Even better to be both.

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