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Unmanageable complexity: Hello, it is Petya
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    A huge cyber attack that initially hit Ukraine appears to be spreading across the world.

    The hack was already the biggest in Ukraine's history when it hit that country. But it appears to be making its way to other countries – including Spain and India – and may be functioning like the massive "Wannacry" attack, according to cyber security experts.

    The attack is hitting major infrastructure in the countries where it has spread to. That has included companies ranging as widely as Danish shipping company Maersk and British advertising company WPP.

    The British National Cyber Security Centre said that it was "aware of the global ransomware incident" and is "monitoring the situation closely".

    Petya is combination of email worm and network vulnerability scanner.

    Main issue is that seems that Microsoft made errors patching known bugs in March, as this thing spread inside local network and encrypts computers even with latest updates.

    Ukraine is main victim due to usage of certain accounting software that had been hacked first.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    It is interesting history of massive PR complain against SMB v1 that Microsoft made and paid for (and idiots helped).

    As they initially hoped to avoid making patches for older OS they pushed to their media idea that SMB v1 is horrible. And it is usually not much the case for very small firms and at home. And at medium and large firms such must be disabled fully, any version.

    Big vulnerability had been developers flaw as they failed to patch some of buffers overflow. And NSA specially talked to them to never patch it as used it thousands of times.

    Btw, Microsoft by default even removed SMB v1 files from Windows 10 so they need additional install.

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