👉 Okay, settle into your seats folks - letâs tackle this one that keeps popping up amongst certainâŚlet's just generously call themly,
spirited
corners of the internet (primarily within some rather aggressively niche online pirate scene and streamer culture).
Now, you'll see "Mcg 15.0.1.3.4." a lot . And honestly? Just... stare at that for a minute. It looks like someone vomited a really complicated spreadsheet into ASCII art. Let me unpack the frankly bewildering beast of what we now call, simply and unfortunately, a âMcg 15.0.1.3.4.x." What exactly IS a McG 15? Basically, it's a very specific, very old, extremely paranoid form of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). Going way back to around 2016, there was this guy named Dallas disbursed his crap. The original version of this crap was called "Mc-Gold." This then evolved into the infamous and frankly rather dramatic âMcG, 15.0.1.3.4.7, 8, 9... and beyond. Hereâs what made itâŚunique: The Crypto: Instead of just slapping a random, new, never-before-seen key on the encrypted files. They stuck with the absolutely archaic and predictable AES-2
