looks like the world is being attacked by a very serious Ransomware virus.

so far UK, US, China, Russia, Spain and many more data's being hold to Ransom. its called WannaCry. and affects windows computers.

The infections seem to be deployed via a worm - a program that spreads by itself between computers.

Most other malicious programmes rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.

By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too.

Some experts say the attack may have been built to exploit a weakness in Microsoft systems that had been identified by the NSA and given the name EternalBlue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Might have missed it in the article - know it's a worm but how exactly was it spread/start? Was it just another legit-looking email that people clicked or was it more complex than that?

That's the thing, worms don't need executables or emails in order to start.

 

[Kourin]

That's the thing, worms don't need executables or emails in order to start.

Ahhh, right. Don't know much about worms. Thank you

 

[hobbledehoy899]

Thank you

You're welcome

 

[Alkéryn]

That's the thing, worms don't need executables or emails in order to start.

My favorite worm still is the myspace one
it was kinda unharmfull though

 

[Flame]

Might have missed it in the article - know it's a worm but how exactly was it spread/start? Was it just another legit-looking email that people clicked or was it more complex than that?

it was by the leaked NSA tools. which some how the hackers used.

 

[Alkéryn]

Might have missed it in the article - know it's a worm but how exactly was it spread/start? Was it just another legit-looking email that people clicked or was it more complex than that?

there are many types of worms but basically they use an infected computer / device / account to spread to neighbor ones (by neighboor it can be many types of neighborhood (ex: local computer, contacts, lan network anithing that have direct or indirect contact )) some require users to do an action and other can use system flaws to work in the background and spread themselves without the user doing anything
others need the user to do something but not necessarly obvious (you could be infected by seeing an image or clicking a link)
some are system wide (running under the system) and other program wide (runing UNDER a program)
But yes they need a first infected system or infecting one (could be the hacker one)

 

[LaPingas]

I remember when someone in our school just made the computer trying to run EVERYTHING on Adobe Reader. lmao

 

[Lightyose]

What is a Ransomware?

 

[Alkéryn]

What is a Ransomware?

Basically a type of virus that encrypt your files and ask you to pay to decrypt them without any guarantee that they will do
in brief it ask for money and take your files as an hostage

 

[hobbledehoy899]

I remember when someone in our school just made the computer trying to run EVERYTHING on Adobe Reader. lmao

That's not ransomware (or even a virus) at all.

 

[LaPingas]

That's not ransomware (or even a virus) at all.

I know. Just a funny troll
It's like making shit in vbs extension

 

[Lightyose]

Basically a virus that encrypt your files and ask you to pay to decrypt them without any guarantee that they will do

Worst malware ever... They will destroy poor people techno life...

 

[Pacheko17]

Worst malware ever... They will destroy poor people techno life...

Literally just gotta format it and done.

 

[Alkéryn]

Worst malware ever... They will destroy poor people techno life...

No there is even worse than that
i knew a malware that could take control of your motherboard
and fry your hardrives and then flashed the bios and fried the cpu

on top of destroying your data, it destroyed your physical system
but it is pretty old and patched now
Though it is theorically possible to have such a malware nowaday
but they are luckily an extinct species now

 

[Lightyose]

Well, I don't have a PC anyways.

 

[Alkéryn]

Literally just gotta format it and done.

No you can recover from a format
if they shred it (fill with random data so you can't recover) they don't have an hostage anymore and you have no reason to pay

They use your files as an hostage
though you have no garantee that they will give it back, paying is usually your only chance

and they usually encrypt your files before asking for money so when they ask, it is too late

 

[Deleted User]

This is why you always back up your data.

As for targeting hospitals, doesn't this mean that the guys responsible will be charged with some very serious shit when they're caught?

 

[Alkéryn]

This is why you always back up your data.

As for targeting hospitals, doesn't this mean that the guys responsible will be charged with some very serious shit when they're caught?

If they get caught yes
but most of the time they don't

 

[hobbledehoy899]

As for targeting hospitals, doesn't this mean that the guys responsible will be charged with some very serious shit when they're caught?

yes (^;

 

[Deleted User]

Cool beans.
Even if it blocks safe mode, It can't block BIOS.
Nice try, already deleted :^)