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.
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
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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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
Not so funny, but that IS probably cheaper than it would take IT to fix the issue...nuts.
I'm hopeful that they will be caught. But how many will die before they are?
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.
Back up your computers, folks.
Not so funny, but that IS probably cheaper than it would take IT to fix the issue...nuts.
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 would say that prime suspects would be anyone who has invested heavily into bitcoins in the last few months or 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 hope they did some significant damage to Russia. Putin will hunt them down and kill them.
I hope they did some significant damage to Russia. Putin will hunt them down and kill them.
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.
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