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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
May 13, 2017
Guys, I don’t know what to tell you.
I think this is really funny.
If you got caught in this – and odds are, some of you reading this did – then yeah, that sucks for you. I get that.
But even you have to admit… pretty funny situation.
More than 100 countries across the world have been affected by the ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack using a computer virus ‘superweapon’ dubbed the ‘atom bomb of malware’.
It is believed more than 130,000 IT systems are affected around the world, including hospitals in the UK, telecoms and gas firms in Spain, schools in China, railways in Germany and the FedEx delivery company.
The European Union’s police agency, Europol, says it is working with countries hit by the ransomware scam to rein in the threat, help victims and track down the criminals.
Yeah, you can do one of those three things.
You can help the victims by giving them $300.
“Reining in the threat” is sort of a meaningless buzz term. I can’t imagine what it is implying.
And “tracking down the criminals” is almost certainly going to be impossible. No one who has done this before has ever gotten caught, and it certainly wasn’t for a lack of trying.
The most hilarious part is, it was probably just one guy. Almost certainly that is the case. And I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have told anyone about it beforehand, or after. At least not until the statute of limitations is up, at which point he will probably release an “I go chop your dollar” type music video about it.
This guy is pretty much a total hero.
Because no expert will say this was done by a state entity, it is going to be very difficult to blame the Russians.
I mean, they can get CrowdStrike to say it was the Russians, I guess. But there will be enough computer experts out there disagreeing that it will just look goofy.
In a statement, Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre, known as EC3, said the attack ‘is at an unprecedented level and will require a complex international investigation to identify the culprits.’
EC3 says its Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, made up of experts in high-tech crime, ‘is specially designed to assist in such investigations and will play an important role in supporting the investigation.’
The attack, which has locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom, is believed the biggest of its kind ever recorded.
“Believed to be”?
That’s like saying “the sun is believed to be the largest, hottest object in the sky during the day time.”
It used code developed by the US National Security Agency which was leaked online last month by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers.
The culprits are still unknown but it is understood criminal gangs will be investigated and it is likely Russia – which suffered the most from the attack – will form a large part of the inquiry.
Russia has been the focus of several hacking investigations in recent months, with allegations from US sources of state-sponsored attempts to influence last year’s US election.
Cyber spies Fancy Bears also operate out of Russia and have been involved in many recent hacking incidents including releasing details of athletes receiving therapeutic use of banned substances ahead of international competitions.
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The spotlight could also fall on North Korea following claims from security experts last month that state-sponsored hackers targeted banks in 18 countries to steal funds to boost its nuclear programme.
‘There are actually two versions of this malware, there was one that appeared in April and we’ve identified one bitcoin address associated with that, and there’s a second version which appeared on Friday and we’ve identified three bitcoin addresses associated with that.
‘These three addresses have received 8.2 bitcoins to date, which is about $14,000 dollars, and all of those bitcoins are still within those addresses. The ransomer hasn’t withdrawn any of the funds yet so there’s no opportunity to trace them.’
Bitcoin is going up.
Might as well pay it now.
So, you could buy BTC now, and hold it until the last minute. That could be a worthwhile idea.
The “authorities” are definitely not going to unlock your computer. Even if they catch the guy – which as I say, is virtually impossible – you’re still going to have to pay the $300.
So far Europe seems to be the focus of the attack, with several high-profile businesses affected.
Union members at French carmaker Renault say the global cyberattack has forced it to halt production at sites in France in an effort to stop the malware from spreading.
The two unionists spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitiveness of the issue.
They say the factory of Renault factory at Sandouville, in northwestern France, was one of the sites affected.
Hundreds of private users in Taiwan were also struck by the malware.
Deutsche Bahn in Germany said departure and arrival display screens at its stations were hit Friday night by the attack.
The railway said that there was no impact on actual train services.
The head of Turkey’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority or BTK says the nation was among those affected by the ransomware attack.
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The Shadow Brokers released Eternal Blue last month as part of a trove of hacking tools that they said belonged to the US spy agency. It has stoked fears that the spy agency’s powerful cyber weapons had been stolen and repurposed by hackers with nefarious goals.
The malicious software was blocking access to computers and demanding payments of as much as $600 to restore access and scrambling data. It is thought to have impacted at least 75,000 computers, including machines in the Russian government.
The technological meltdown began earlier on Friday afternoon in Britain when more than 40 NHS organisations including hospitals and GP surgeries were hit by the virus.
Russia is thought to have been among the worst hit by the ransomware amid reports that 1,000 computers in the country’s Interior Ministry were affected, but sources say no information was leaked.
Russia, however, while being hit hard, isn’t having any of her infrastructure shut down. Because her infrastructure isn’t on the internet.
No information from anyone was leaked. That isn’t what this does. The fact that anyone is even talking about that is goofy.
