There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with finding your carefully curated music collection locked behind ransomware encryption. It’s not the sort of thing you expect to happen to a Raspberry Pi running a music server in your home network. Yet here we are, and someone in the self-hosting community just lived through exactly that scenario with want_to_cry, a relatively unknown ransomware variant that targets vulnerable SAMBA configurations.

What struck me reading through the thread wasn’t just the incident itself, but the follow-up discussion—and more importantly, how the person who got hit took ownership of their mistakes and shared them publicly. That takes guts, especially when admitting you didn’t fully understand what DMZ mode actually does on your home router.