New massive cyber attack

Massive ransomware infection hits computers in 99 countries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

Fyi

 

Don't click on links. lol.

 

I've been wondering when someone would comment on this cyber attack. I'm surprised JPT didn't catch it.

 

It's the BBC . It's the news source that I trust above all others . I also don't want to get in the habit of massive cutting and pasting because I think it's annoying .

But your point is well taken

 

He prefers to deal with smaller issues and personal attacks.

 

It is a very sad person/group who have done this cyber attack.Putting peoples lives at risk by attacking our NHS system.I hope they get caught and a long time in prison for it.

 

According to the BBC source this worm or whatever was stolen from the national security agency .

I would call this treason and would not necessarily oppose capital punishment

 

Underage content in link. Is my baby too big or just big.

 

I read somewhere that the motivation for most hackers is to gain street cred from their fellow hackers .

They created an awful lot of damage for a few slaps on the back from fellow lowlifes .

Fortunately I have abandoned most PC systems so so far it has not affected me directly .

Attacking NHC Systems is utterly inexcusable and the fact that they targeted this shows me how depraved these people are

 

Nice to see that you're on topic .

 

The source says that Russia was the hardest hit so maybe we are trying to hack their caviar, bride or nestled dolls industry . I don't know if any elections are going on over there right now .

 

I read your posting history to see what kind of person you were and and really wanted to enjoy your presence and all of the threads it looks like you shoot out of a shotgun on the title pages but noticed you busted yourself a short while ago for the same infraction and concluded you are a loose cannon.

 

Oh snap!

And for the record I posted nothing about babies. And this has nothing to do with the post at hand. See this is the problem when you get high on a Saturday morning. It's hard to know what's going on .

But nice try and by the way buh bye.

 

Click the link and look on the righthand side and there is an article titled Is my baby too big or just big which includes a picture of an infant and in the other links you posted it is in there too, not to mention 2 more pictures of children in the Capital punishment thread link so do not tell me you are that stupid as to repeat it 3 times without knowing what you are doing!

Bye bye to you as well as you have been reported 3 times already today and the ignore button is moot in this case. I wondered what people meant by saying troll and you fit that definition and you may call me one if you are that foolish as to think you are above the rules.

 

I have heard that this piece of malware originated in the NSA in the US........so apparently the National Security Agency needs a security upgrade!

Thinskin

 

It's a weird story .

Some people steal a program from the NSA and then use it to disrupt British and Russian systems . Also apparently Chinese systems but the Chinese are not talking much about it according to the article .

There's probably a sub story here but will probably never know what it is.

And when there is a lack of information people like to fill in the story .

I think it has something to do with Area 51
And the attendant Space aliens , The Rothschilds The trilateral commission the masons, The Kennedy assassination and of course the glue that holds all of this together which is Donald Trump! Anyone who thinks that he is not the real Kennedy assassin is just plain naïve .

 

Ya I posted that this morning in another thread about how they used US software to launch the attack and how a couple geeks stumbled upon a kill switch ...

And further to this:

'Accidental hero' halts ransomware attack and warns: this is not over
The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.

The ransomware used in Friday’s attack wreaked havoc on organisations including FedEx and Telefónica, as well as the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), where operations were cancelled, X-rays, test results and patient records became unavailable and phones did not work.

But the spread of the attack was brought to a sudden halt when one UK cybersecurity researcher tweeting as @malwaretechblog, with the help of Darien Huss from security firm Proofpoint, found and inadvertently activated a “kill switch” in the malicious software.

Cyber-attack hits 74 countries with UK hospitals among targets – live updates
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The researcher, who identified himself only as MalwareTech, is a 22-year-old from south-west England who works for Kryptos logic, an LA-based threat intelligence company.

“I was out having lunch with a friend and got back about 3pm and saw an influx of news articles about the NHS and various UK organisations being hit,” he told the Guardian. “I had a bit of a look into that and then I found a sample of the malware behind it, and saw that it was connecting out to a specific domain, which was not registered. So I picked it up not knowing what it did at the time.”

The kill switch was hardcoded into the malware in case the creator wanted to stop it spreading. This involved a very long nonsensical domain name that the malware makes a request to – just as if it was looking up any website – and if the request comes back and shows that the domain is live, the kill switch takes effect and the malware stops spreading. The domain cost $10.69 and was immediately registering thousands of connections every second.

MalwareTech explained that he bought the domain because his company tracks botnets, and by registering these domains they can get an insight into how the botnet is spreading. “The intent was to just monitor the spread and see if we could do anything about it later on. But we actually stopped the spread just by registering the domain,” he said. But the following hours were an “emotional rollercoaster”.

“Initially someone had reported the wrong way round that we had caused the infection by registering the domain, so I had a mini freakout until I realised it was actually the other way around and we had stopped it,” he said.

MalwareTech said he preferred to stay anonymous “because it just doesn’t make sense to give out my personal information, obviously we’re working against bad guys and they’re not going to be happy about this.”

He also said he planned to hold onto the URL, and he and colleagues were collecting the IPs and sending them off to law enforcement agencies so they can notify the infected victims, not all of whom are aware that they have been affected.

He warned people to patch their systems, adding: “This is not over. The attackers will realise how we stopped it, they’ll change the code and then they’ll start again. Enable windows update, update and then reboot.”

He said he got his first job out of school without any real qualifications, having skipped university to start up a tech blog and write software.

“It’s always been a hobby to me, I’m self-taught. I ended up getting a job out of my first botnet tracker, which the company I now work for saw and contacted me about, asking if I wanted a job. I’ve been working there a year and two months now.”

But the dark knight of the dark web still lives at home with his parents, which he joked was “so stereotypical”. His mum, he said, was aware of what had happened and was excited, but his dad hadn’t been home yet. “I’m sure my mother will inform him,” he said.

“It’s not going to be a lifestyle change, it’s just a five-minutes of fame sort of thing. It is quite crazy, I’ve not been able to check into my Twitter feed all day because it’s just been going too fast to read. Every time I refresh it it’s another 99 notifications.”

Proofpoint’s Ryan Kalember said the British researcher gets “the accidental hero award of the day”. “They didn’t realise how much it probably slowed down the spread of this ransomware”.

The time that @malwaretechblog registered the domain was too late to help Europe and Asia, where many organisations were affected. But it gave people in the US more time to develop immunity to the attack by patching their systems before they were infected, said Kalember.

The kill switch won’t help anyone whose computer is already infected with the ransomware, and it’s possible that there are other variants of the malware with different kill switches that will continue to spread.

The malware was made available online on 14 April through a dump by a group called Shadow Brokers, which claimed last year to have stolen a cache of “cyber weapons” from the National Security Agency (NSA).

Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a user’s data, then demands payment in exchange for unlocking the data. This attack used a piece of malicious software called “WanaCrypt0r 2.0” or WannaCry, that exploits a vulnerability in Windows. Microsoft released a patch (a software update that fixes the problem) for the flaw in March, but computers that have not installed the security update remain vulnerable.

The ransomware demands users pay $300 worth of cryptocurrency Bitcoin to retrieve their files, though it warns that the “payment will be raised” after a certain amount of time. Translations of the ransom message in 28 languages are included. The malware spreads through email.

“This was eminently predictable in lots of ways,” said Kalember. “As soon as the Shadow Brokers dump came out everyone [in the security industry] realised that a lot of people wouldn’t be able to install a patch, especially if they used an operating system like Windows XP [which many NHS computers still use], for which there is no patch.”

Security researchers with Kaspersky Lab have recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 74 countries, including the UK, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Italy, and Egypt. In Spain, major companies including telecommunications firm Telefónica were infected.

By Friday evening, the ransomware had spread to the United States and South America, though Europe and Russia remained the hardest hit, according to security researchers Malware Hunter Team. The Russian interior ministry says about 1,000 computers have been affected.

 

I caught it before it was reported but didn't think it warranted my attention here on this site as nefarious hackers make me want to puke. I did post about it just now in the above post though if you are interested. The cyber security program we wrote picked it up while doing a server sweep just as it wet hot. And yes we forwarded all relevant information to CSIS here in Canada.

And I hope you don't expect any back payment for the free rent I get in your head LMAO.

 

The problem is that whatever offending article you saw is NOT always the same articles for everyone, depending on what time the article is viewed and where in the world you are.
For example; I just clicked on the link and the articles I have are: (22:15, 14/05/2017, Gloucester England.)
"Why I brought weapons to school."
"Have Tories kept army pledge."
"Friends, fund-raising and birthday celebrations."
"Why I had to terminate my baby's life."
"The rise of China's Taylor Swift."
"Office sauna: The firms taking the sweat out of work."
"Spring-cleaning India's most magnificent tent."
"My brain injury turned me into a teenager."
"I begged my son not to go and protest."

So basically shut the fuck up complaining about underage links, which you have OBVIOUSLY read, that are UNRELATED to the article, and understand that the links YOU see are NOT always the same links that others viewing the original article see.
Also IF you did a little searching through the discussions then you will have read that this matter has already been dealt with by ILMJ.

 

See this is the reason that I put MyBad on ignore. People have been warning me that he's out to get me but I find his rage increasingly boring .

He's really a very dark angry presence who is vengeful. Just makes it worse that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

But thank you for dealing with him Because I've lost patience with it .