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Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Speedy
Date: July 03, 2021 04:22PM
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Posted by: NewtonMP2100
Date: July 03, 2021 06:32PM
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Posted by: Sarcany
Date: July 03, 2021 06:48PM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Fritz
Date: July 03, 2021 07:58PM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Don C
Date: July 03, 2021 10:46PM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: RgrF
Date: July 04, 2021 02:07AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Fritz
Date: July 04, 2021 08:34AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 04, 2021 08:25PM
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Files in iCloud Drive would almost assuredly be safe, even if access to them is temporarily interrupted (like any other random iCloud outage.)
Also, to fully reiterate, it is I would say 99.9% likely Apple is not impacted by this issue - it only infects Windows hosts. I *REALLY* doubt Apple is running Windows on any of their iCloud-hosting systems.
(I also doubt they're running macOS - they're probably running Linux; and I know that the Akamai caching servers are running a Linux.)
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: July 04, 2021 08:40PM
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pdq
Okay, I understand, the Russians are probably behind this, and besides, Windows runs the world. Cool. But why do they get such a pass on the malware, either Solar Winds or this new one?
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 04, 2021 10:28PM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: July 04, 2021 10:48PM
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pdq
...if some of the shoppers happened to be Mac users, then yes Mac users were affected that day - they couldn’t get their groceries.
That also seems (partially) comparable to Mac users not being able to use Microsoft products like Microsoft 365 or Exchange while the Windows malware runs amuck in the Windows/Microsoft world. But otherwise, were Mac users infected? We’re their computers locked up? Their files encrypted with ransomware instructions? Did they even have the malware (which, presumably, couldn’t run on Macs…or Linux, for that matter) copied (harmlessly) to their computers by these (Russian?) modified remote management tools?
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Fritz
Date: July 05, 2021 05:49AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: RgrF
Date: July 05, 2021 08:40AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Fritz
Date: July 05, 2021 09:04AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 05, 2021 10:07AM
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Dutch researchers said they alerted Miami-based Kaseya to the breach and said the criminals used a "zero day," the industry term for a previous unknown security hole in software. Voccola wouldn't confirm that or offer details of the breach - except to say that it wasn't phishing.
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: rich in distress
Date: July 05, 2021 10:40AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Speedy
Date: July 05, 2021 04:35PM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 06, 2021 07:28AM
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Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: July 06, 2021 09:12AM
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pdq
So, I can understand why functionality to encrypt files exists, but I don’t understand why the OS wouldn’t require super – elevated privileges and safeguards to prevent malware from doing so.
I probably just don’t understand the technology well enough.
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: pdq
Date: July 07, 2021 08:37AM
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pdq
So, I can understand why functionality to encrypt files exists, but I don’t understand why the OS wouldn’t require super – elevated privileges and safeguards to prevent malware from doing so.
I probably just don’t understand the technology well enough.
"Encryption" can be accomplished in infinite ways. There's no way to simply block "encryption."
A simple piece of ransomware might just walk through the file-system encoding every document-file that it sees in a manner that would be hard to distinguish from any application opening and saving files. Does the OS prompt you every time you save a file? Would you be able to get any work done if it did?
Re: Widespread ransomware attack likely hit ‘thousands’ of companies
Posted by: Sarcany
Date: July 07, 2021 07:41PM
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So, I can understand why functionality to encrypt files exists, but I don’t understand why the OS wouldn’t require super – elevated privileges and safeguards to prevent malware from doing so.
I probably just don’t understand the technology well enough.
"Encryption" can be accomplished in infinite ways. There's no way to simply block "encryption."
A simple piece of ransomware might just walk through the file-system encoding every document-file that it sees in a manner that would be hard to distinguish from any application opening and saving files. Does the OS prompt you every time you save a file? Would you be able to get any work done if it did?
It does seem like the OS could warn you after a program had encrypted, say, 10 (or 50 or 100) files. Simple dialog box pop up - “X has encrypted <so-many> files; do you want to allow it to continue?” with a check box that says don’t ask me again for this program.
Seems like it wouldn’t take more than a few minutes in new-hire training to teach people how to handle the pop-up.