NHS England hit by 'cyber attack'

>Trusts and hospitals in London, Blackburn, Nottingham, Cumbria and Hertfordshire have been affected.

>GPs are resorting to using pen and paper, according to newspaper the Blackpool Gazette, and phone and IT systems have been shut down.

>NHS England says they are aware of the issue and are looking into it.

>Among those affected is the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust which says it is experiencing problems with computers and phones systems.

>It has postponed all non-urgent activity today and is asking people not to come to A&E at the the Lister Hospital in Stevenage.

>IT specialists are working to resolve the problem as quickly as possible, a statement from the Trust says.

>Also affected is Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust which says it has shut down all of its IT systems following a 'secure system attack'.

>>139106
inb4 russians

>>139106
Now this is going to be the only thing we get news about for a week, and it turns out to be nothing, but they still write abut cyber security anyway.

>>139113
>and it turns out to be nothing

You have some inside information?
Do share.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/12/hospitals-across-england-hit-by-large-scale-cyber-attack

>NHS hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

>Many hospitals having to divert emergency patients, with doctors reporting messages demanding money

>Doctors posted on Twitter about what was happening to their systems.

>Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.

>The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs. NHS England said it was aware of the problem and would release more details soon.

>According to reports, affected hospitals include those run by East and North Hertfordshire NHS trust, Barts Health in London, Essex Partnership university NHS trusts, the university hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS foundation trust, Southport and Ormskirk hospital NHS trust and Blackpool teaching hospital NHS foundation trust.

>In a message to a Guardian reporter, one NHS IT worker said: “At approximately 12.30pm we experienced a problem with our email servers crashing. Following this a lot of our clinical systems and patient systems were reported to have gone down.

>“A bitcoin virus pop-up message had been introduced on to the network asking users to pay $300 to be able to access their PCs. You cannot get past this screen. This followed with an internal major incident being declared and advised all trust staff to shut down all PCs in the trust and await further instructions.

>“This is affecting the east of England and number of other trusts. This is the largest outage of this nature I’ve seen in the six years I’ve been employed with the NHS.”

>One person who appeared to be an NHS worker posted an image purportedly of the message that the virus was showing on affected computers.

>>139110
>Demanding bitcoin
This is almost certainly China's wheelhouse. Id actually bet there is also a portion of any and all infected servers mining bitcoins as well. Its actually pretty common if you run a server

>>139116
I don't, but to attack a whole country just sound unlikely too me

>>139122
> a whole country just sound unlikely too me

Based on what?

All the staff are carrying walkie talkies as the phones are down too

We were meant to go for an ultrasound in a children's hospital but it got cancelled

I wonder if it turns out to be an attack against NHS our just one user opening an infected email or file which started the avalanche.

Its a global attack... Spain, Portugal, China, Taiwan anda Italy are reporting the same attack...

>>139106
>Plot twist: attack was carried out using software and tools developed by the CIA

>>139174

CIA created new replacement for the shit in Frankfurt?

>>139177
The CIA had its toybox tipped over a la wikileaks. A treasure trove of zero day exploits were dumped into the internet all at once

>>139180
last I heard most of it was already patched

>>139181
They put out patches. But the question is if people actually updated their shit. Tell me, when was the last time you logged into your router and updated its firmware?

>>139175
>>139180
Julian Assange killed my Nan.

>>139180
Yeah can be that. But why are they quiet? Why no one are assuming those attacks?

russia says they're also getting targetted

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/latest-uks-health-hit-ransomware-152601749.html

>>139191
They want money, not fame

>>139208
Aren't bitcoin transactions able to be traced now?

>>139210
>Aren't bitcoin transactions able to be traced now?

Tracing is how Bitcoin works. It's impossible not to be able to do so. Assigning an identity to an address ... now that's the kicker.

>>139174
Sauce?

It wasn't me

I'm not exactly sure but is this using the NSA spy tools that were revealed and leaked by Wikileaks?

CIA had all kinds of back doors into products with buggy software. The question is: did employees at CIA find the problems, or did employees at CIA work with Microsoft/Apple to _create_ backdoors that could be later exploited? Either way, if the U.S. Gov't knew about these flaws, they _should_ have contacted manufacturers immediately so patches could be created. Exploiting flaws in consumer products to spy on people all over the globe (including the U.S.) should not be part of the job description for U.S. gov't employees.

>>139217
Its been known for ages that the US "intelligence agencies" are criminal scumbags who get a free pass because they work for the corporate shills in Washington.

>>139214
>>>/wsg/1685321
URL in metadata is a real time monitor of the attack, audio is B5 radio news coverage