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		Melatonic 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect ... Most windows servers are virtualised these days so I'm not sure this would work anymore. It might look at other indicators though

loktarogar 3 months ago [–]

There's other tells, like this other top HN post right now tries to work around: https://wbenny.github.io/2025/06/29/i-made-my-vm-think-it-ha...

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