![]() Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is looking to solve that problem with the launch of a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website, Ransomwhere. Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos Group who previously worked for the U.S.Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos Group who previously worked for the U.S. ![]() ![]() “After seeing that there's currently no single place for public data on ransomware payments, and given that it's not hard to track bitcoin transactions, I started hacking it together.” “I was inspired to start Ransomwhere by Katie Nickels's tweet that no one really knows the full impact of cybercrime, and especially ransomware,” Cable told TechCrunch. The website keeps a running tally of ransoms paid out to cybercriminals in bitcoin, made possible thanks to the public record-keeping of transactions on the blockchain. However, in order to make sure all reports are legitimate, each submission is required to take a screenshot of the ransomware payment demand, and every case is reviewed manually by Cable himself before being made publicly available.Īs the site is crowdsourced, it incorporates data from self-reported incidents of ransomware attacks, which anyone can submit. ![]() Because of changes to the way Medium operates, I will no longer be keeping up this blog. You can find my new blog at and a direct link to this article at īecause of Ankhbot’s merger with Streamlabs, this article is now slightly outdated so I have made a new one! Please head over to the aptly named “ Streamlabs Chatbot - Creating an (almost) autonomous user-created custom welcome message program ”!Ī while back I decided to give my Twitch followers, whom I call Drifters, a way to create their own welcome message that, for a small sum of currency (called supplies in my channel), would greet them when they entered chat. This would allow them to spend some of those supplies on something other than ambushes (my channel’s version of heists) and make the community feel a little more like theirs. Of course, this also lead to the idea of them being able to create a welcome message for other users–a fun way for followers to mess with other followers. Luckily, Ankhbot has included a way for welcome messages (among other things) to be included upon specific users entering your channel. I immediately set this plan in motion and it was a success as I was able to use the $removepoints() parameter to take Supplies from them and they would whisper me the message they wanted their welcome message to be or the username and message of the other Drifter. However, soon after this breakthrough (in my mind), I realized it would be near impossible for me to keep up with their need on a consistent manner without interrupting gameplay repeatedly. That lead me down the path in search of a way to make a completely autonomous way for users to create and change their welcome messages at will. I’ll be upfront with you: it is not possible to create a completely autonomous user-created custom welcome message in Ankhbot. Running my idea past Marcin Swierzowski on Twitter, he confirmed that my idea just wasn’t able to bear fruit.Īnkh Heart That’s not possible.
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