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The only thing scary about it is that we give computers to people who apparently don't know how to use them 👀🙃

Heard about that from Greek sites too. Hmmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with the recent increase of spam in my e-mail. I always get spam, but there was a recent increase. :P

affected my workplace

Sort of lol considering that fix has allegedly been released already two months ago.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

Nevertheless, apparently a quite nasty case in terms of that it can replicate itself in a network once on one of the computers therein (while using NSA EternalBlue exploit). But as said, patch was released already two months ago, so... somewhat weird, isn't it? I mean, I think I could do a better job in IT than what happened there, even if not having IT school as such on CV.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/security/2017/05/what-is-wanna-decryptor-wcry-ransomware-nsa-eternalblue/

use this page to watch the current infection rate worldwide after you click connect.

https://intel.malwaretech.com/pewpew.html

who the fuck does this shit
its quite possible ppl actually die from this wtf

This fucked up the NHS today, whoever did this is a total dickhead who has put lives in danger for practically no money. Idiots and scumbags, hope they get lengthy jail time.

I blame Pope Francis visiting my country!

I live in Cambridge(UK, not Mass,US), and let me tell you how bad our Government's IT projects / IT abilities are. I know this is just one example but......

About 2-3 years ago, our NHS hospital here in Cambridge implemented a brand new, all singin' and all dancin' IT system. Gone were paper records, gone were paper prescriptions and blood test or X-Ray requests. Everything was done electronically, everyone with tablet computers all connected centrally so that as soon as a test result was available the doctor that had ordered it got it on his or her tablet or PC.

This was the future, maaaan!

Anyway, it just so happened that I had an appointment there the day - I have Crohn's Disease and Addenbrooke's Hospital is a world leader for trials, treatments, research and such for CD - they turned on this new system in anger for the first time.

I walked into the Gastroenterology clinic and there were, I swear this is true, doctors, nurses, admin staff stood looking shell-shocked at best and openly crying at worst in the corridors and behind desks; I thought there'd been some huge terrorist attack somewhere in the 45 minutes it had taken me to walk there, but no.....twas the wondrous new IT system.

Basically, they had chosen to switch from the old systems and methods(paper, telephone calls between departments and even pagers etc) to the new saviour of the NHS at 9am on a Monday morning. They had switched every person and every department, every function and every data repository over all at once. As an IT professional I was astounded at the stupidity and the arrogance of it....and I'm pretty arrogant.

The system was woefully inadequate. I had an appointment for around 10am or so....and I got to see my consultant at well past 3pm. I actually went HOME again as one of the nurses I know(I've spent a lot of time as an inpatient) said she would ring me at home so I could walk back AGAIN.

I sat in my consultant's office and after 15 minutes of trying to simply access my main patient record, he gave up and asked me to remind him of all the salient points he needed(latest test results, treatments etc), which he then proceeded to write on an A4 pad. He could not issue prescriptions, order blood tests; all he could do was have a chat with me - again, I know him well - and promise to call me at home "when things got sorted".

Needless to say, things did not easily "get sorted" and Addenbrooke's Hospital, a hospital thought to be truly world class in many areas, a hospital that is if memory serves the largest teaching hospital in Europe, was put into what our government calls "special measures". Basically that means it is wholly failing in some pretty dire ways, mostly caused by the £200m initial cost of the new systems and then the fallout from the huge mess it got them into and on top of that the huge cost to put the system right and catch up in every respect, medical and administrative.

So I am not in the least surprised that a large chunk of the NHS has been caught with its digital knickers around its ankles.....

Yesterday I just completed security audit and none of my work PCs had any critical patch not installed. Assuming Microsoft did their job of course, I should be safe. 😃

Seems like someone managed to find a kill switch, sadly that won't help with already hit computers...

Any prevention for windows XP? >.<

Also happened here in Spain with some big companies like Telefonica

As a home user, I'm sort of worried for my files (docs, photos, videos, game projects...save games... you know) because of the cryptographer viruses for years now. Having important things backed up and latest updates for the OS is nice, but you know... it can always happen, even without your fault (like this "new" exploit that basically makes builtin antivirus to infect your system and spread the virus to the local network without you even opening an infected file).

That said, I'm really surprised at how many big companies use windows for important tasks. I can understand for UI terminals, but for servers, network infrastructure, and all the other things? I mean... ffs... who decided to use windows instead of *BSD in that field?

I wonder why Windows 10 users were not attacked