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Malware, described in leaked NSA documents, cripples computers worldwide

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Malicious software that blocks access to computers is spreading swiftly across the world, snarling critical systems in hospitals, telecommunications and corporate offices with the help of a software vulnerability originally discovered by the National Security Agency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...18f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.088b34d5058f

Trains in Germany, hospitals in the UK, throughout Russia...

If only they'd take down the IRS... then they'd win a ton of support.
 
Trains in Germany, hospitals in the UK, throughout Russia...

If only they'd take down the IRS... then they'd win a ton of support.

Someone leaked the story to Wikileaks and the goods Russia kept?
 
Trains in Germany, hospitals in the UK, throughout Russia...

If only they'd take down the IRS... then they'd win a ton of support.

This is terrible and frightening news that deserves more than a cutesy comment about the IRS. Hospitals in the UK have been crippled--surgeries cancelled, ambulances diverted, and we've yet to learn what the human cost of this will be. NHS ransomware cyber attack spreads worldwide
 
This is terrible and frightening news that deserves more than a cutesy comment about the IRS. Hospitals in the UK have been crippled--surgeries cancelled, ambulances diverted, and we've yet to learn what the human cost of this will be. NHS ransomware cyber attack spreads worldwide

The idiots should had have full backups in a number of offline locations so they could be back up an running within hours.

Hell my home computers have such backups and all internet facing programs such as browsers are in a sandbox beside and I am not running a hospitals!!!!
 
I heard a bit about this on the radio but I didn't know it was world wide.

They said it was "ransom malware"..and the hackers were only asking $300 ransom to stop it.
 
Global cyber attack fuels concern about U.S. vulnerability disclosures | Reuters

A global cyber attack on Friday renewed concerns about whether the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries' intelligence services too often hoard software vulnerabilities for offensive purposes, rather than quickly alerting technology companies to such flaws.

Hacking tools believed to belong to the NSA that were leaked online last month appear to be the root cause of a major cyber attack unfurling throughout Europe and beyond, security researchers said, stoking fears that the spy agency's powerful cyber weapons had been stolen and repurposed by hackers with nefarious goals.
 
The idiots should had have full backups in a number of offline locations so they could be back up an running within hours.
Hell my home computers have such backups and all internet facing programs such as browsers are in a sandbox beside and I am not running a hospitals!!!!
Backups at home are in no meaningful way comparable to how to backup a business network that is operating in real time on that network.
 
I heard a bit about this on the radio but I didn't know it was world wide.

They said it was "ransom malware"..and the hackers were only asking $300 ransom to stop it.

That 300 worth of bitcoins per computer if I am not wrong not 300 for a whole network.

Footnote as the supply of bitcoins is limited so big demands for them for any reason be it honest or not will raised the price per bitcoins this seems like a good chance to invested in them.
 
I heard a bit about this on the radio but I didn't know it was world wide.
They said it was "ransom malware"..and the hackers were only asking $300 ransom to stop it.

Not so funny, but that IS probably cheaper than it would take IT to fix the issue...nuts.
 
Back up your computers, folks.
 
Backups at home are in no meaningful way comparable to how to backup a business network that is operating in real time on that network.

Nonsense as there are firms that fairly cheaply will do constant online backups in real time with older versions of backups available so you would just need to go back to a point where the backups are not encrypted.

Then have offline backups at least daily on top of that.

It not a big problem if you take a few precautions.
 
This is terrible and frightening news that deserves more than a cutesy comment about the IRS. Hospitals in the UK have been crippled--surgeries cancelled, ambulances diverted, and we've yet to learn what the human cost of this will be. NHS ransomware cyber attack spreads worldwide

While I am not a big fan of the death penalty, I would not lose sleep if the people who unleashed this nonsense were executed when caught.
 
I'm hopeful that they will be caught. But how many will die before they are?
 
Not so funny, but that IS probably cheaper than it would take IT to fix the issue...nuts.

If they do not have current backups there is no way for any IT department to fixed the problem without the key being given to them.

With current backups repairing the problem as in reading the files back into the network and then rebooting is far far faster then paying the criminals the bitcoins and decoding the encrypted files.
 
I would say that prime suspects would be anyone who has invested heavily into bitcoins in the last few months or so.
 
I'm hopeful that they will be caught. But how many will die before they are?

give them 10 lashes with a whip for each person who dies.

seriously, I put these criminals up there with serial murderers and child rapists in terms of scum who need to be absolutely crushed when convicted
 
That 300 worth of bitcoins per computer if I am not wrong not 300 for a whole network.

Footnote as the supply of bitcoins is limited so big demands for them for any reason be it honest or not will raised the price per bitcoins this seems like a good chance to invested in them.

Hmm...good tip. :)
 
Not so funny, but that IS probably cheaper than it would take IT to fix the issue...nuts.

Yes...but whats to stop them for asking another ransom next week and the next week and so on? Or is this just the future of doing business?
 
give them 10 lashes with a whip for each person who dies.

seriously, I put these criminals up there with serial murderers and child rapists in terms of scum who need to be absolutely crushed when convicted

I hope they did some significant damage to Russia. Putin will hunt them down and kill them.
 
I would say that prime suspects would be anyone who has invested heavily into bitcoins in the last few months or so.

An as tracing bitcoins is next to impossible if you take a few precautions and that is why it is used so must in ransomware in the first place good luck in doing so.
 
Yes...but whats to stop them for asking another ransom next week and the next week and so on? Or is this just the future of doing business?

I would assume first of all that the patch to stop this one type of attack would be put into place and the fools would spend some dollars to get a layer backup system in place to stop other such attacks in the future.
 
I hope they did some significant damage to Russia. Putin will hunt them down and kill them.

After he pays them. The Interior Ministry is at their mercy. Now it's here. So far, they've got FedEx.
 
I hope they did some significant damage to Russia. Putin will hunt them down and kill them.

years ago a hacker caused some problems for a business out west. The FBI tracked the hacker down. He was a teen age kid. When they found him, he had a "sicilian necktie". according to the FBI SA I talked to, the company was owned by the brother of a "made man" in the NY mob and the the company owner asked his brother to "make the problem go away". No on could prove anything but apparently, on the deep web, the company sort of suggested if you hacked it you'd end up like the kid who got the piano wire termination notice
 
I would assume first of all that the patch to stop this one type of attack would be put into place and the fools would spend some dollars to get a layer backup system in place to stop other such attacks in the future.

Part of the ACA was to upgrade doctor and hospital computer systems. Up til then, a lot of them were still using pen and paper.
 
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