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Collection of photographs of WannaCry infections from around the world
- whatnotests 9y agoThe pregnancy test tho. Good stuff.
- sjreese 9y agoI loved the last one the best :-)
- noobermin 9y agoI have to ask again, why are machines that are not even desktop computers running windows?
- miguelrochefort 9y agoNever heard of Windows Server, Windows IoT, Windows Mobile?
- 1ba9115454 9y agoComputers need an OS to be useful and windows is an OS.
- noobermin 9y agoHow much "usefulness" does a microwave require? Or a airport terminal that displays flights?
- kbart 9y agoIf you want to do that from scratch on a general purpose MCU and expect it work reliably 24/7/365 -- the answer is hell lots. Disclaimer: I'm an embedded system engineer.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoWell...even then (especially then!) Windows is not the right platform for this, I would say. Too many moving parts and stuff - one would have thunk that the GWX popups were enough of an disincentive.
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- pcr0 9y agoThe microwave picture was a joke. As for airport/train station displays, I think early displays were LED matrices running on custom hardware + OS. I suppose just hooking up an LCD flatscreen to an embedded windows computer displaying a webpage allowed for easier maintenance and richer content.
- paradite 9y ago> Figure 14 Bank of China ATMs That's not an ATM, it's a machine to top up petrol card.
- cordite 9y agoSeeing ATMs with a warning like that is a total nope.
- dovdovdov 9y agoyep, 'total nope' is the ransomware's business model.
- jerf 9y agoIt was localized into Chinese? How many languages was it localized into?
- felixthehat 9y ago28, I saw on twitter https://twitter.com/MB3ngtsson/status/864357179842715648 https://twitter.com/MB3ngtsson/status/864357179842715648
- jerf 9y agoI a bit disturbingly impressed. Thank you.
- Piskvorrr 9y agoEh...a few minutes with Google Translate, and voila. Most recent ransomware tends to be "translated" (sometimes even localized!), as English message would elicit a tech support response, whereas a local one could have the normal user accepting the demands.
- comboy 9y ago> Russian Railways center Wow. We're so lucky that terrorists are not very creative.
- pazra 9y agoWhat ever happened to the 2nd wave that security experts were warning about, without the kill-switch code? Haven't heard any reports of this being found in the wild yet. Anyone else?
- goda90 9y agoI imagine anyone paying attention grabbed the Microsoft patches and now there are fewer computers for it to spread to.
- mirekrusin 9y agoIt would be "funny" if Microsoft would be blocked to release updates, because, you know, they'd have locked machines.
- jayflux 9y agoFrom what I understand they didn't say it was going to happen, they just said it's a likely possibility.
- retox 9y ago>The biggest cyberattack in history infected more than 200,000 Is that all? The media is blowing this up, I would have though there would be more prolific worms that this. Nimda? Sasser? Blaster? Storm Worm?
- mike-cardwell 9y agoThey're journalists. You can't expect them to Google something before printing it.
- c22 9y agoI heard it referred to a couple times as "the biggest ransomware attack". Perhaps the writer heard this too and lost the nuance.
- eriknstr 9y agoAnother couple of big ones I remember: Sobig, 2003. In particular I recall that media was talking about Sobig.F - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobig Mydoom, 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydoom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydoom
- creepydata 9y agoFrom my memory bank: Melissa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus) ILOVEYOU - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU Anna Kournikova - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_(computer_virus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kournikova_(computer_viru... Slammer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Slammer And of course, the fastest spreading virus of all time, Sammy (which only effected Myspace profiles but still meets the definition of a computer worm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm) I don't think the media covers malware/viruses like the used to around the turn of the century.
- kevhito 9y agoIt's strange, many news organizations report this as "200,000 organizations", but others as "200,000 computers". Which are very different. Some of the bigger universities alone probably have hundreds to thousands of infected computers. I'd bet it's closer to 200k organizations, but I don't know how that would be measured or tracked.
- cjjuice 9y agoAttackers BTC transaction history.. $81,065 at current BTC/USD rate https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNXj6LrLn https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNX... https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6NgaEb94 https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6N... https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8isjr6SMw https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8is...
- giarc 9y ago>Maximum concurrent requests for this endpoint reached. Please try again shortly. Anyone have another link? I'd be interested to see how many people actually paid.
- yourfate 9y agoLooking at those ammounts, some people seem to be donating BTC just for fun. 0.0001337 BTC won't decrypt anything :D
- factsaresacred 9y agoLooks to have infected Windows 7 machines based on some of the screenshots : https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Tzl_0ABu-Y/WRs-KUrQWzI/AAAAAAAABCY/h_Utbo1fLrQABX5LXcGB6D_wWpie2IYFwCEw/s1600/univerzita.jpg https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Tzl_0ABu-Y/WRs-KUrQWzI/AAAAAAAAB... Thought it was only an XP thing?
- Retr0spectrum 9y agoIt doesn't affect XP at all. Edit: At least, the versions currently in circulation don't. https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/864193677060706306 https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/864193677060706306
- Piskvorrr 9y agoPatches were released for everything from XP onwards, up to WinX (which is apparently not vulnerable to the SMB exploit).
- joyofdata 9y agoMany of those photos show real time connections / schedules for trains of the Deutsche Bahn. I'm wondering ... does this mean they have a dedicated OS installation (virtual or not) for each set of displays showing different schedules? That would be so rediculously inefficient ... ... but then again - it's the DB - basically a synonym in Germany for incompetence :D
- germanier 9y agoYes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? At some point you need to render all those different tables. Using off-the-shelf comments is probably the most efficient system imaginable. If you think DB is utterly incompetent you should take some trains in most other countries. I know it's a popular sport to bitch and moan about them (I do it as well) but seriously, the system works surprisingly well. Those displays are also some secondary info screens that were added later and are not part of the core system and thus probably don't receive the same attention as other more important things.
- joyofdata 9y ago> Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise? How about a thin client based on Linux receiving the raw data wireless and then simply displaying it formatted as a table? And if that doesn't exist yet then have Siemens design a solution of that kind.