NHS Attack

LOOOOOOOOOL SOME PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING THE RANSOM HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNXj6LrLn

but u can always track the transaction

Thank Christ for shit like this honestly.

Crypto had boomed so quick, the second the normies flood in the game is over.

I want at least another four years of gains before I pullout

Holy fucking shit this is legit. I thought you were joking.

Apparently the entire NHS system is being held to ransom.

bbc.co.uk/news/live/39901370

This is the call to arms for the goverment/global elites to crack down on cryptocurrency.

These pajeet's fucked it all up.

fucking russians man they ruin everything, I bet it was them

kek

lol no you can't you have no idea what you're talking about

why would they blame the currency thats being used for transaction instead of the haxxors or their shitty pajeet IT interns

why not

please do explain why you cant

Wel crypto has enabled them to accept a ransom

didnt these scams happen all the time with fiat currency aswell?

i dont see any one wanting to boycot the euro or usd just because someone were forced to pay a ransom in it

literally all they have to do is exchange it for a private coin like dash, monero, vertcoin, etc.. then back to bitcoin to a different address they control. no sketchy laundering services.

You absolutely can try to track the transaction. Often times wallet providers will comply to information requests if the right people ask. There are firms dedicated to tracking illegal activity on blockchains.

>UK bans crypto
>They can't pay ransomware anymore
>NHS now unable to function
>Bypartisan agreement to privatize the NHS for good
>Years later it is revealed the Tories payed russians and chinese to hack the NHS

Will the masked big guy hacker on steroids known as Veeky Forums get the blame?

And of course we've got the election happening, coincidence? I think not.

Why did the haxxor not request payment in Bitbean or pepecash

Because theyre noobs

>Years later it was revealed that the Tories paid the CIA to make it look like the Russians and Chinese hacked the NHS

Can anyone answer me why they didn't have antivirus???

I was just about to seal a $10,000 investment from friends & family in the UK. Now they have all backed out. Expect bitcoin to go down to $1500 at least this weekend.

I hope so. I want to buy more bitcoins.

This is why crypto tumbler services exist. This exact reason.

That way you can cash out your illicit/unreported gains and no one can track it.

Yes. Before crypto they'd tell you to wire the money to some third world/Russian/cayman islands account.

Crypto has simply made the transaction more manageable from a money laundering standpoint. Ransomware was around long before crypto became mainstream.

Not familiar with how dash/monero are private. How does that work? Anyone got a white paper?

Hey guys, /g/ here.

Endpoint protection really doesn't do shit in this context. It's mostly a legal move for companies to say "we took preventative countermeasures to mitigate an attack". It meant to show that an organization is proactive in cybersecurity. (If they didn't have AV and were sued, the fines would be much higher because not having antivirus is considered gross negligence in a lot of locales.)

As for the NHS, this seems more like a social engineering attack, which an AV will never be able to mitigate.

BTC better go down so MILO can go UP UP UP!!!

this is so fucked up, doctors need to register their patients on the computer or else they dont help them

Sell all your bitcoins now! Its only a matter before governments start banning them because of this attack!

fucking morons i swear

they should ban the FIAT currency too because an attacker can just as well say to send money to an offshore banking account in the CAYMAN ISLANDS like Macron does

Because most of these attacks are perpetrated via phishing attacks.

Antivirus doesn't help you if you unwittingly execute the file.

NHS should have daily server backups they can revert to. If not, that's the real travesty here.

That's why you should always have redundent back up servers. Tell rasomware fucks to suck your dick and just restore your info.

Even elementary schools have this. Why wouldn't a hospital?

ring signatures
From what I understand, you get scrambled with fake adresses or something, and can be anyone.

>Even elementary schools have this. Why wouldn't a hospital?
brits

>Pay $300 for the chance to retrieve data
>Do nothing and lose millions of dollars worth of customer data
???

>store millions of dollars worth of customer data without a backup

Who says they don't?

For some reason you're all just assuming this is only a problem because they don't have backups.

Ransomware is disruptive. A shitload more disruptive if you don't have a backup, but it's disruptive anyway. It takes time to restore from backup, and there'll be multiple target backups involved. It's not instantaneous.

If all the payments are going to the same address how can le hackerman tell what HDs to decrypt?

Governments are against crypto.
Opportunity arises to further push the narrative against crypto.
I expect them to use this as an argument in the future.

Also the company where im working my wagejob was also hit by ransomware around a year ago.
Apparently a receptionist opened a bad email, rumors were that it was pornographic.
The way we solved it was by rebooting the servers and putting a backup in.
Our company changes the server hard drives every day, so we only lost 1 day of information.

No fucks were given.

Receptionist did get fired some time later but it had nothing to do with that fuck up.

Why rail AGAINST crypto when none of this would have happened if the NHS just put their records on a blockchain. This is a massive opportunity for them to create NHSCOIN if they decide to take it.

I support a few of the NHS centres in the UK

They are all fucking gormless useless bastards. The sad thing is they all get paid more than me.

If anything, this type of ransomware actually creates demand for bitcoin.

Want your shitty alt-coin to go to the moon? Hire some Russians to put out ransomware that demands it and watch it go up in price. Im surprised no one has tried something like this yet.

>Our company changes the server hard drives every day
What?

>government employees are incompetent

Shocking stuff, really.

Well it could have been weekly or monthly, that does sound like it makes more sense but for some reason I thought they said they changed it daily.
Doesnt change the fact that damages are easy to limit by backing up data frequently.

>Dash
>Privacy coin

Nice joke user

this tbqh senpai

lol absolutely devilish

Ah right - I think you mean they changed tapes. And you'd probably be right, they'd do that daily for most organisations backup needs.

Or any other privacy coin. You get the idea

>not requesting ransom in bitbean

money.cnn.com/2017/05/12/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-microsoft/index.html

>Massive ransomware attack hits 99 countries