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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-attack-idUSKBN19I1TD
A ransomware attack hit computers across the world on Tuesday, taking out servers at Russia's biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks, and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms.
Cyber security experts said those behind the attack appeared to have exploited the same type of hacking tool used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers in May before a British researcher created a kill-switch.
"It's like WannaCry all over again," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure.
He said he expected the outbreak to spread in the Americas as workers turned on vulnerable machines, allowing the virus to attack. "This could hit the U.S.A. pretty bad," he said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it was monitoring reports of cyber attacks around the world and coordinating with other countries.
The first reports of organizations being hit emerged from Russia and Ukraine, but the impact quickly spread westwards to computers in Romania, the Netherlands, Norway, and Britain.
Many recent outages/attacks have a pattern and a UK power grid outage is anticipated.
(Score: 2) by BenJeremy on Wednesday June 28 2017, @02:39PM (1 child)
Most of the time, this is due to some idiot CEO who insisted they have absolute access to the networks and, of course, clicked on the link in their e-mail to get discount erection pills along with a low-interest business loan to help pay off the lasik surgery.
Once they get infected, the attackers have authentication to spread everywhere in a company.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:31AM
Rig the network such that if the CEO computer or any other tries to do what viruses does it will shut down their network access. That way the CEO gets the illusion of open access but gets "IT-problems" whenever his own computer is compromised. It could be as simple as ban-me.corporate.com with open SMB ports.