Major hack on UK

>bbc.co.uk/news/health-39899646

The English healthcare system is in shambles after a 'large scale cyberattack' took down its phone and computer systems today.

Opinions? Who would do this, how, and what possible motive could there be?

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>nobody cares
>install gentoo like the rest of Sup Forums xD
>Ryzen though hehe

Sup Forums is shit

basic ransomware just use a removal tool btw

If it's because of the Snooper's charter allowing the government to make a backdoor somewhere, I'm going to laugh and then promptly hope the conservatives go back on that law.

AMA

Took it down mainly for the lels.

>why would anyone want to know the heath, payment choices, genealogy of an entire country?
are you being retarded? literally any nefarious digital entity would love to have that type of information its probably at least worth tens of millions of pounds at wholesale prices

>centralized heath data gets fucked over
ya dont say

This could kill a lot of people, theoretically - if they dont fix it ASAP it could be really, really bad. Kind of a world first, isnt it?

does anyone know what the deadliest purely-cyber attack in history is so far?

i feel like only state actors would have a use for that kind of information, i dont think some random individual hacker would go for it

unless theyre planning to sell it to China or Russia or something

>holding an entire country's healthcare system hostage for $300

This has to have been an accident, right? Surely if the hackers knew what they were hacking they would have asked for a LOT more?

i assume that something has already happened somewhere but the entity that was victimized downplayed it. there was the whole debacle with peoples "smart" shit getting taken and used to ddos social media sites but that didnt kill anyone.

maybe its a ransom group yah I could see that. But i agree some kind of state actor seems probable, then again maybe its just one agency or particular groupd within a country and not "authorized" nevertheless this is a perfect example why centralized medicine is a retarded idea. i feel bad for the brits right now

I think it's $300 per infected machine, and they're probably all infected by now.

I can confirm it isn't on every machine, just on the central server, I work in the NHS

$300 per machine. Your average hospital will have hundreds of individual computers, all networked in to the country-wide NHS system. We're talking the national healthcare system for 65,000,000 people.

Pretty much. Some dipshit put this ransomware on a drive and came into work and it spread.

You need the private key dipshit.

i dont think the takeaway is necessarily that centralized medicine is a bad idea, just that if you ARE gonna have it you should have mil-spec computer security surrounding it

Largest spanish ISP got hit too, as have a couple other European organisations.

Might be a zero-day exploit, since it seems to attack with impunity.

That's a stock photo my friend

LOL BRITKEKS

It is a stock photo, but the attack is of the same ransomware (WCry). NHS staff have posted pictures of it on twitter and reddit

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust admitted in an FOI request to having over ten thousand machines running XP even though their extended support deal ran out over two years ago.

What? The main server got hacked. That's one machine.

Doctors are mostly old (40+)
I guess its unsurprising the NHS has such an uninformed approach to cybersecurity. I bet this mistake won't happen again though.

Look at Twitter. NHS staff members are posting photos of personal workstations being encrypted.

>just that if you ARE gonna have it you should have mil-spec computer security surrounding it
why did NHS not have that already??? and i understand your point that is too broad of a statement, let me get it more on point then.
65M peoples health and genealogy information should not be able to be accessed in one place.
anytime the dr asks me if I want paperless lab results/email notification I always make sure to sign the extra forms saying NAH bc fuck having my health data sent via http bought by the shit budget of a clinic. either way I wonder if someone will actually get in trouble for this bc holy shit is that not a big fuck up, i bet its spookitime for brits right now
BTFO they are fucked

>Anime
Hi.
Go to hell.

pay denbts

They aren't accessible in one place - there is no way to get patient records or information from the central compromised server. The NHS Trust have said that no patient information has been accessed.

However what you CAN do is remote install ransomware that locks up all of the information rendering it unusable.

And I think its a fair bet that the UK cybersecurity departments are going to make sure that if the culprits *can* be found, they will be found. British SigInt is world class.

I wish Microsoft could be held liable for this.

kill yourself

I wouldn't be surprised if once the ransomer wakes up and realises what he's done he panics and immediately releases all the computers for free

My guess is that he wanted a couple thousand bucks, not to cripple a countrys infrastructure and indirectly murder hundreds

Could it have been Sup Forums the hackman?

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by no coincidence anime is very much entrenched with satanic bs and degeneracy like that pic. neck yourself
>the NHS Trust have said that no patient information has been accessed.
can we really trust them?
>They aren't accessible in one place - there is no way to get patient records or information from the central compromised server.
i mean I would think not but lets pretend the attack was worse would they really say "ya we got pwnd 100%" ? i would think they would lie if that happened but I would hope that there protections against that sort of thing would be more secure, BUT in the USA too agencies like HUD "misplaced" 500million so I dont put anything passed be possible for giant state agencies in any country. for the brits sake hopefully its just ransom

Nah, this looks like a coordinated attack. A flood of Spanish and Portuguese ISPs are also reporting WCry.

>Go to hell.
Where do you think we are?

if anythinbg it looks NOT coordinated and just a shotgun approach

Back to plebbit

Why is this even called a hack or a cyber attack? It sounds more like some idiot opened an email attachment or something.
>NHS Digital said the ransomware attack was not "specifically targeted at the NHS" and was affecting other organisations.

>tfw because of this Thinkpads w/ Gentoo become mandatory in all UK Government offices and the country becomes entirely led by techy geniuses with ridiculously high-spec equipment

Y E S

It's easy to remove it but that won't bring the files back.

And while I'd like to hope that everything is backed up and ready to be completely restored in a matter of hours and blahblahblah... the NHS is severely underfunded right now. It's not looking good.

I bet they were using Windows 10

ex MI6 on sky news blamed on windows XP

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some were still on XP. X fucking P!

>Some men just want to watch the world burn

>some

Not some. See , there are entire hospital trusts still using it. They all paid Microsoft for the extended XP packages because apparently ten million dollars for one more year of support was a smarter option than just upgrading.

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How safe is the perpetrator?

Obviously almost all ransomware hackers are never caught, but might things be different if an entire country's cybersecurity forces start working on the case?

Quite a bit of the NHS appears to be on XP

Someone's going to be skinned alive. GCHQ is arguably the most competent state intelligence organization in existence, and an attack on the British medical system, incidental or not, is guaranteed to fall under their purview.

>Some idiot employer downloaded porn.mp4.exe and installed it
>IT guys will just restore a backup
>We got "hacked"

GCHQ are the real deal

so telefonica and the NHS both installed porn on their central servers? on the same fucking day

>backups

um... unless they make backups of the entire system literally every hour then this is very serious

That would be a reasonable thing to do for healthcare systems, in my opinion. But I severely doubt it was actually done.

>backup are not infected

Telefonica UK has NHS support contracts.

It was Russia obviously.

As long as the radiology and pharmacy machines aren't infected, this really shouldn't be that bad. Just a logistical nightmare for a day or two. This is why wifi-enabled stethoscopes are a bad thing tho. MRIs and the like should be connected one-way only, output and absolutely no input.

Seems to me the solution is to build unhackable systems.

BBC just said it's effecting all versions of windows that are being used from vista up to server 16/windows 10

Nice meme

The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

Why did it take this long to say this?

Why doesn't the NHS have some kind of backup for patient data?

Seems like something like this was bound to happen

what a time to be alive

People will literally die because of this, operations are being cancelled. So fucked up.

>Black Cock news
probably lie

>britbongs are going to die because some retard brought in a USB drive from outside or opened a suspicious email in work

I wonder if the people who wrote this feel guilty now

lol people will die, so funny right, upboated Xd

will i be safe???

>bbc.com/news/technology-39901382
It's global

kek they're under attack too

the global cyber war is finally upon us

Hey, you have to laugh at these things

yep, its an exploit that was patched a while ago

>saved thumbnail

I'm a retard

>that filename
This can't be real. What's wrong with cucks?

If only the cuckold part was true.

the cuck part is fake retard

Is that possible? Simply visiting a website gives the possibility to someone to run a program like decrypt0r on the computer used to visit the website? Without the user accepting to download and install the program? It happened before? What S.O. where affected?

wired.co.uk/article/wanna-decryptor-ransomware

It is. Because the software that runs there is probably written in spaghetti and doesn't support anything outside particular build version.

Adverts that run third party JS or Flash programs can do some nasty shit, including throwing a piece of ransomware into the startup folder.

Infected pdf what i heard, did sone dcom fuckery

Current state of normalfags.

If this is true then anyone running windows should be fine as long as they avoid PDFs, right?

Or is there some other way it can then spread?

>muh coordinated attack
It's more likely that the affected computers are all part of the same nefarious data-sharing network.

Yeah avoid attachments like always and your fine.

Force shit into gdrive or something to view/edit until it cools down, work has to get done, but fuck don't run shit locally today.

The tories - bring down the NHS once and for all

Hey I have a good idea lad. Pay the 300 bucks for one computer, one that has administrator privileges, then get all the info, transfer it to an non encrypted drive , then format all the other hdd

Yeh?

I think this may be a long term repercussion of the scrapped Fujitsu NHS systems overhaul from a few years ago. Basically, the whole thing was so pants on head retarded and broken that the NHS fired Fujitsu and had to undo their shit, go back to old systems and start again. Private Eye covered the story at some point.

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How are they gonna pay the ransom with all that free health Care they have?

CONSERVATIVES ARE FUCKED

THEY CAN'T EVEN MANAGE THE NHS PROPERLY

LABOUR WILL WIN IN A LANDSLIDE

SOCIALISM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>implying this isn't common in burgerland
the presidents doctor uses windows xp

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28464002

>An NSA Cyber Weapon Might Be Behind A Massive Global Ransomware Outbreak

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/12/nsa-exploit-used-by-wannacry-ransomware-in-global-explosion/#53d7aa8de599

Fuck murifats! Why you guys are so dumbasses? This is your fault, muricas.

>Conservatives and Microsoft get bad press
How is this ever a bad thing in of itself?

The exploit was also patched in March by Microsoft. Here's a perfect argument for automatic updates if they ever needed one.

Of course that's not gonna help you when you're running Windows XP.

>common in burgerland


Yeah, but when we go to the hospital or doctor we pay money, money that can pay the ransom

Where does the magical free ransom monies come from in free health care land, and how long is the ransom money going to spend on a waiting list?

Its just more ammo to move to a more sensible health care system desu, which includes private options

I'm not talking about the security breach either in Windows, MacOS or Linux. I'm talking about the tool created by the NSA.