📚 FSociety Ransomware Is Here, But It's Pretty Lame

Fans of the Mr. Robot TV show would be glad to know that real-life crooks are taking inspiration from the TV series, and are now using the FSociety name and logo to develop a ransomware around this brand. Mr. Robot is a USA Network TV show that revolves around the life of Elliot, a talented security engineer that has an alter ego as Mr. Robot, the leader of the FSociety hacking crew. The show, which deals with a lot more than hacking, got to a spectacular start, winning a Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama, for its first season. Mr. Robot TV show dealt with ransomware at the start of season 2 The show is now well embedded in the infosec community, which respects it so much for the accuracy it depicts hacks and technical details that it nominated Marc Rogers, the security expert consulting on the show, to a Pwnie Award for Epic Achievement at this year's Black Hat security conference. In the season two ...