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Another article mentioning the use of faxes now that the court is disconnected from network: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/anhoerung-zu-trojaner-angriff-ka

Another article mentioning the use of faxes now that the court is disconnected from network: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/anhoerung-zu-trojaner-angriff-kammergericht-baut-den-notbetrieb-aus/25172194.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/anhoerung-zu-trojaner-ang... Summary: Berlins Court of Appeals (Kammergericht) kept using Windows 95, even though the maintenance of this OS ended in 2001. Elsewhere, it is mentioned, that the court was hit by Emotet malware. Some judges have stored all their documents in the official system and have now lost them, and they have literally no access to their past work except on paper printouts, if they have any. Some other judges did not obey rules and stored their documents also on USB sticks; they now do have some back-ups. (Google Translate works reasonably well for German-English.)

ryanlol 7y ago
Very surprising that Emotet runs on Win95.
- iforgotpassword 7y ago
  Same here. Also the USB part was mentioned in several news outlets. Iirc, Win95 had no USB support. So it either was only parts of the system that ran in it, or something got messed up during reporting. Because I faintly remember an earlier report that only mentioned Word 95, which would make a little more sense as that should run on more recent versions of Windows.
  - ptaipale 7y ago
    All computers probably are not running Windows 95, many are newer. But I understood the point here is that judges take files home (maybe using floppies?) and use their own computers to work on them. And when at home, they are not supposed to take local backups, but some did it anyway. It's also suspected that the infection of malware came via a private computer handling the files. Again, Google Translate does a decent job: Infection may be through private computers Many of them have in the past, also because of the often outdated service computers, taken office data on storage media such as USB sticks home and worked there in the home office. The fear of having infected the private computer with the virus is great - and apparently justified. The Federal Office for Information Security advises in case of infection with the Emotet virus to a reorganization of the affected computer. Current information about the virus further states: "Emotet is considered one of the biggest threats of malware worldwide." https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/schadsoftware-im-berliner-kammergericht-trojaner-angriff-deutlich-schwerer-als-gedacht/25092566.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/schadsoftware-im-berliner...
- Hitton 7y ago
  Indeed. Kudos to the developers for maintaining support for legacy operating systems. Only half joking.

ryanlol 7y ago

Very surprising that Emotet runs on Win95.

iforgotpassword 7y ago
Same here. Also the USB part was mentioned in several news outlets. Iirc, Win95 had no USB support. So it either was only parts of the system that ran in it, or something got messed up during reporting. Because I faintly remember an earlier report that only mentioned Word 95, which would make a little more sense as that should run on more recent versions of Windows.
- ptaipale 7y ago
  All computers probably are not running Windows 95, many are newer. But I understood the point here is that judges take files home (maybe using floppies?) and use their own computers to work on them. And when at home, they are not supposed to take local backups, but some did it anyway. It's also suspected that the infection of malware came via a private computer handling the files. Again, Google Translate does a decent job: Infection may be through private computers Many of them have in the past, also because of the often outdated service computers, taken office data on storage media such as USB sticks home and worked there in the home office. The fear of having infected the private computer with the virus is great - and apparently justified. The Federal Office for Information Security advises in case of infection with the Emotet virus to a reorganization of the affected computer. Current information about the virus further states: "Emotet is considered one of the biggest threats of malware worldwide." https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/schadsoftware-im-berliner-kammergericht-trojaner-angriff-deutlich-schwerer-als-gedacht/25092566.html https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/schadsoftware-im-berliner...
Hitton 7y ago
Indeed. Kudos to the developers for maintaining support for legacy operating systems. Only half joking.