Massive *global* ransomware attack: 1000's of companies affected

Our local high school got hit with ransomware last week.

What a good synopsis!

[imgur] [link to i.imgur.com (secure)]

Wait...so using TPM chips and secure boot didn't help? Yes, yes, I realize I'm being a smartass but I couldn't resist. I think it's about time people realize that the only safe data is offline data and data stored in closed networks not accesible from the outside. What does that mean for our world? The fun stuff is online, everything has to be done in person and with paper like it's 1955. I know, nobody will listen and we'll continue this mad rush forward into our techno dystopian nightmare of a futre complete with a total loss of individual rights and freedom in the name of security. Place your finger on the scanner...now your eyeball...now your asshole...ok so all we need is your ballsack imprint a dna test and a blood sample and you can access your bank account.

After all, that's the world we've been inching towards since 9/11 anyway right? Why stop now when billionaries, crooked politicians and criminals are having so much fun!

Windows is such a pile of crap. All of the affected computers were using Windows. The attack targeted a dll file used by Windows Defender, which side loaded the malware onto servers through a Kaseya update. Then the dominos all fell.

Kaseya is saying only 40 of their customers are affected. Which I believe to be a giant lie. They shut down their SaaS servers, which were probably all affected as well as every on-premise customer of theirs, which each manages hundreds of servers/pcs on average.

This is a disaster.

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Here is a partial customer list.
[link to www.featuredcustomers.com (secure)]

Cyberpandemic?

Indeed. Succinct, concise & all facts.

Can windows be trusted if it's owned by Bill Gates?

Thread: Cyberattack incoming! It has begun!

It was Thomas Gabriel.

'Just awakened, typing here before a morning coffee, so please pardon my grammar and spelling.

Ironically even old computers can run the latest version of Windows 10.

As this thread continued yesterday I was loading the latest current ISO of Windows 10, 21H1, on a PC twelve years old with BIOS dated 2008.

I had gone to my upstairs office earlier in the week for a network cable and wound up coming back downstairs to the den with a housing, power supply, system board, 8GB of RAM, a WiFi NIC as backup in case my wired switch fails, two 2TB and one 500GB HDDs and a video card to connect it to a smaller PC screen and the huge 4K UHD TV in the den.

This thread was my motivation to assemble that hardware into a PC to hold an offline copy of 3TB of storage we've duplicated in Microsoft and Google's clouds, here at home.

This thread has proven one can never be too protected or have too many copies of their files.

As a side note, there were more than forty different versions of Windows 10 ISO images available for download from Microsoft as I found one to download and generate a key for, which made me further realize that IT staff has at least 39 chances to install the wrong version and build of Windows 10 for their environment.

May all in the US have a grand July 4th weekend and the International posters... why not cook something awesome this weekend, on a charcoal grill that has no fear of smoking up the neighborhood with your delicious cooking!

Who am I kidding? Coffee? It's a holiday weekend and I gave myself off until Thursday, I'm going to pour a beer and probably make beef nachos for breakfast!

My glass is raised to you all, the good members and guests of GLP.

Who uses Google any more?

The answer to those questions is IT mismanagement and technical incompetence. I have removed three instances of ransomware hostaging of data on three different gov networks. It took all of twenty minutes with not a penny paid.

But... you can't shut the barn door after the horse has escaped. You need to have already implemented means of immediate recovery if someone at a PC screws up by viewing the wrong website or opening the wrong email, which is how all three networks were infected to begin with.

I had previously implemented years before.



He doesn't do anything with it now, he's too busy killing babies and burning down Canadian villages.

so...cyber polygon?

I wonder now if something like this is what happened @ my work about 3 mos. ago.

Not much was said about it and no real explanation, we just came in one morning and no one had email or various other things. They basically just told us they were working on it.

It was down like that for about 3 days. Healthcare setting.

Hey Boaty. Any more insider info on this?

Not much other than it sucks to be working on a holiday weekend.

To all you naysayers, read the WaPo headline:

Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies on eve of long weekend

[link to www.washingtonpost.com (secure)]

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Related?

Thread: Here We Go- Houston-HFD (Fire Dept.), HPD (Police Dept.) dispatch systems down.

Another reason why the WEF criminals all need to be arrested. Every last one of them and every politician that attended their meetings. Event 201 a few months before the pandemic and now cyber polygon with the real thing happening. It's so obvious it's them.

McAfee switch? Lol

3 million Indians are living in USA. Those IT/Tech workers

This is huge. MSPs are the computer support for small and medium businesses. Dentists offices, restaurants, any company not large enough or too lazy/cheap to pay an entire IT support staff. Kaseya makes the remote control software agent that MSPs install on all client machines and servers. This could easily affect a tens of thousands of businesses. Kaseya and Labtech are the big players.

Wow!

So they hijacked their update distribution system and sent their malware down to each customer.
A lot of these attacks lately.