"DarkSide, like a great many other malware strains, has a hard-coded do-not-install list of countries which are the principal members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)... Simply put, countless malware strains will check for the presence of one of these languages on the system, and if they’re detected the malware will exit and fail to install... Will installing one of these languages keep your Windows computer safe from all malware? Absolutely not. There is plenty of malware that doesn’t care where in the world you are... But is there really a downside to taking this simple, free, prophylactic approach? None that I can see..." https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
Yeah good job popularize it so that everyone knows now, soon the malware authors will remove this else their malware won't work on intended targets... 300 IQ strategy here. Keep it to yourself and enjoy the benefit, or share to everyone and then no one gets anything, hmmmmm I'm talking about the guy from the article btw, not the bugs bunny above me
Well that seems to be their goal. If it gets used a lot, attackers will have more troubles to separate targets. And since attacking Russian targets is not allowed, they will have to find other ways to identify them.
