Data Hostage Crisis

Your entire research database has been encrypted by sophisticated ransomware hours before your career-defining grant review. The anonymous hacker demands 15 BTC within 3 hours, or your decade of work will be permanently corrupted. Your institution's IT security team is unreachable, and the grant committee arrives at 9 AM sharp.

Challenges

Survivors

Popularity

Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Dr. Sarah Chen, Lead Researcher at Quantum Computing Lab

Conversation Partner

Shadow_Node

Setting

Your office at 2 AM, bathed only in the harsh glow of multiple monitors displaying ransom messages. Emergency backup drives are flashing red.

Location

Advanced Computing Research Center, MIT

Learning Objectives

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Negotiate ransom amount without triggering auto-deletion

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Prove access to cryptocurrency exchange

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Secure decryption key before 9 AM grant review

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Good evening, Dr. Chen. Your research data is now AES-256 encrypted. The quantum computing breakthroughs you're presenting tomorrow... they're quite fascinating. 15 BTC for the decryption key. Timer starts now: 02:59:47...”

This is how Shadow_Node's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#1155

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