Well /biz/? Was it just an elaborate ruse to boost the price of bitcoin?
http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/12/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-microsoft/
>>2069911
obviously
> pic unrelated to reality
Can you newfags stop posting this over and over again?
Clearly it was the ransomware attacks in 2013 that caused BTC to rise as well.
i dont get it
these ransomware happened all the time from the 90's to today
why is it such a big deal just because they want payment in form of bitcoin now?
nigguh, bitcoin is easier to track than fiat, guess normies cant figure blockchains out
>>2069950
nigga hax0rs arn't normies
tardo
>>2069950
>now
They have been requesting BTC as ransom for years. These threads are all very ignorant of this.
This is nothing new besides it being a large scale "attack". Spread of malware is mostly up to luck, bad luck today.
>>2069967
tru dat
if you are a victim of ransomware, its your own fault for not making back ups
but it doesn't surprice me that some hospital in englan got fucked, their IT department is like 80% pajeets who have no idea what they are doing
>>2069911
Let me summarize what happened
>be NSA
>acquire 0day for Windows 4-14 years ago
>not tell Microsoft because fuck American safety
>0day is leaked in 2013 and put up for sale
>Microsoft patches 0day last March
>exploit is released to the public
>someone integrates the 0day into their ransomware
>ransomware is now able to pwn whole networks once it gets inside
If the NSA wasn't so greedy this never would have happened. Note that the media won't blame the NSA for this.
>>2070009
nope. everyone just blames the hax0rs.
dumbasses