Michael Emrys Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Read about it here: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/27/534560169/large-cyberattack-hits-ukraine-snarling-electric-grids-and-airports Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Michael Emrys, Don't understand why you didn't put this in CMBS. In any event, makes me glad I'm on a Mac. Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 18 hours ago, John Kettler said: Don't understand why you didn't put this in CMBS. I almost did, but thought it belonged more here as a general topic. Just a judgement call, and like all judgement calls, may have been wrong. But here we are. 18 hours ago, John Kettler said: In any event, makes me glad I'm on a Mac. Not sure that matters. The hackers are targeting the big players cos that's where the money is. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 I have a feeling we can all guess how this one will play out in the media: As the Beeb are broadly hinting already: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40428967 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 28, 2017 Author Share Posted June 28, 2017 Well of course the Ukrainians immediately put up the cry that it is a cleverly designed attack by Russia against them. And for all I know, they might be right. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Who else would do something like that? I mean seriously, it's just like when suddenly well equipped soldiers appeared in the streets of Crimea. I was astonished that anyone would say "we don't know where they are from". It was bizzare. And it is again. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 (edited) It does look like this attack was rather more of a weapon than an extortion attempt and the Ukraine does seem to have got the worst of it.....However we should probably take this into considerstion: Quote It really doesn’t take a state actor to pull this off. Tsap said if he were asked to create a NotPetya-style attack, all he’d need are two security specialists and a couple of developers to work on it for a few months. The bill: $100,000. That’s all. “It’s very cheap,” Tsap told me. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-notpetya-cyber-attack-was-likely-very-cheap-to-depl-1796496099 Interesting times. Edited June 29, 2017 by Sgt.Squarehead 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG TOW Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 9 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said: It does look like this attack was rather more of a weapon than an extortion attempt and the Ukraine does seem to have got the worst of it.....However we should probably take this into considerstion: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-notpetya-cyber-attack-was-likely-very-cheap-to-depl-1796496099 Interesting times. Tsap's statement is not in a logical context. That's like saying it would only cost you $1000 to break into a bank vault because that is what a construction contractor charges to drill through 5 feet of hardened steel. Any developer willing to take that on would charge an extremely high price or a cut of the take. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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