Scripting malware with Python

The script:

https://github.com/twhite96/hacker-scripts-python/blob/main/network-chuck/ransomware/givemeyourmoney.py

This script is pretty simple; we’re just iterating over plain text files and encrypting them.

But what about encrypting a whole directory of things other than flat text files?

disk as quickly as possible without allowing the user to stop the script?

disks?

Privilege Escalation