Updated: Large Global Scale Cyber-Attack
12-05-2017, 15:32
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Updated: Large Global Scale Cyber-Attack
BREAKING: Some Hospitals across the Country are reporting they have been hit by Large Scale Cyber Attack and are saying there is huge problems with Information Technology and Telephony Networks.
More to follow...
http://news.sky.com/story/nhs-trusts...ttack-10874280
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12-05-2017, 15:58
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
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12-05-2017, 16:08
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
Looks like a ransomware attack, that is mental if it is.
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12-05-2017, 16:50
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
Yeah looking at the current reports it's looking like they've been hit by a speculative, malicious email campaign and people have been clicking on the links. There were some nasty ones containing fake docusign links kicking about last week.
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12-05-2017, 17:20
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
Some GP's said to be using just Pen and Paper.
Ransomeware appears to demand $300 Bitcoin payment to decrypt files.
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12-05-2017, 18:29
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
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Originally Posted by Mick
Some GP's said to be using just Pen and Paper.
Ransomeware appears to demand $300 Bitcoin payment to decrypt files.
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They have back up, though, don't they? Mind you, if as I have heard they are still using Windows XP, this might have been totally avoidable had they updated their systems.
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12-05-2017, 18:32
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
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They have back up, though, don't they? Mind you, if as I have heard they are still using Windows XP, this might have been totally avoidable had they updated their systems.
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The issue is not the OS but the idiots that click on links in e-mails. That's how the systems got infected. That WILL happen to any system running any version of Windows.
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12-05-2017, 18:37
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
Just been listening to some cyber experts bemoaning the fact that outdated Windows software is a common factor in situations such as this, highlighting that lots of organisations (including within the NHS) still use Windows XP and haven't updated their security. For those thinking that this is another case of the UK being well behind in these matters, another expert called in to say that Paris Airport's IT systems are based on Windows 3.1!!
Of course it helps greatly if people using these systems, of whatever age, are more careful about what they click on.
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12-05-2017, 18:43
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits Some NHS Hospitals
NHS now declaring this a Major Incident : 40 NHS hospitals now said to have been hit by this Ransomeware.
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12-05-2017, 18:45
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
PAH in Harlow is currently uneffected, but been taken down as a precaution
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12-05-2017, 18:52
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
If this doesn't serve to be a huge wake up call for a lot of people then nothing will.
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12-05-2017, 19:21
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
This is bigger than just the NHS.
Telefonica (O2) has been hit, along with other companies across Europe.
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12-05-2017, 19:43
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
So it appears this nasty bit of kit is using the leaked NSA vulnerability which attacks the SMB filesharing protocol behind part of the Windows network infrastructure. There have been warnings kicking about over this for weeks.
This was the focus of those critical Windows security updates in the middle of last month so it looks like someone (for one reason or another) is behind in their patching
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12-05-2017, 20:13
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
So it appears this nasty bit of kit is using the leaked NSA vulnerability which attacks the SMB filesharing protocol behind part of the Windows network infrastructure. There have been warnings kicking about over this for weeks.
This was the focus of those critical Windows security updates in the middle of last month so it looks like someone (for one reason or another) is behind in their patching
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Actually the patch was released March 14th.
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 - Critical
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12-05-2017, 22:54
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
This has hit a few countries including russia and china whoever it is they better make a lot of money out of this they are going to need it.
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