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They now saying Petya WIPES the computers, not - Nothingtodo

Posted: Jun 28th, 2017 - 6:27 pm In Reply to: Good post. Do you have any idea if Nuance applied - Nothingtodobutyack

just ransomware. Don't know what this means for us, but thought I'd pass it on.

"So then why purport to be ransomware? There’s no way to say for certain right now, but Suiche believes it was about hiding who was really behind the attack. “We believe the ransomware was in fact a lure to control the media narrative,” he writes, saying that ransomware suggests “some mysterious hacker group” being behind the virus “rather than a national state.”

That’s still speculation for now, but the virus did appear to primarily target Ukrainian infrastructure, including an electricity supplier, the central bank, the state telecom, and an airport. Analysis from Kaspersky Lab yesterday showed the virus remaining primarily in Ukraine."

These vicious attackers, whether a criminal nation or independent criminals, didn't just take down our jobs but attacked many thousands of hospitals and other vital institutions.

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When I posted updates yesterday that I was - receiving from my manager (Views: 1717, 2017-06-28, 4:07 pm)
- See a suit is still trailing you (or suits) - Noticed the (Views: 947, 2017-06-28, 4:57 pm)
  - They are offering clients the use of - Crabby (Views: 1065, 2017-06-28, 5:02 pm)
- Good post. Do you have any idea if Nuance applied - Nothingtodobutyack (Views: 1064, 2017-06-28, 5:03 pm)
  - Not that I am aware. There has been nothing - conveyed to us about a patch (Views: 803, 2017-06-28, 5:08 pm)
    - The patch was put out by Microsoft - Crabby (Views: 805, 2017-06-28, 5:10 pm)
      - Thanks for the responses. I'm strictly a "user," - Nothingtodo (Views: 787, 2017-06-28, 6:06 pm)
  - My guess is no Microsoft patch - MTmom (Views: 783, 2017-06-28, 5:11 pm)
  - They now saying Petya WIPES the computers, not - Nothingtodo
- Any updates? - WestCoastMT (Views: 822, 2017-06-28, 5:17 pm)
  - Unfortunately, no. Nuance did not give ANY - clue in their last contact (Views: 1000, 2017-06-28, 5:31 pm)
    - Us ICs are pretty much screwed - Crabby (Views: 792, 2017-06-28, 5:35 pm)
      - That's why I took the outside facility job a while - ago. They are great docs to work for (Views: 696, 2017-06-28, 5:39 pm)
      - ICs getting screwed - romiha (Views: 786, 2017-06-28, 5:42 pm)
        LOL! I agree. I was shocked by actually - Crabby (Views: 917, 2017-06-28, 5:45 pm)
        Hahaha Crabby! - I was just telling (Views: 852, 2017-06-28, 5:58 pm)
        clean?? - romiha (Views: 768, 2017-06-28, 6:59 pm)
        That's what Good Housekeeping says - Crabby (Views: 699, 2017-06-28, 7:10 pm)
  - My OM said we'd be paid for downtime, but no ETA - nm (Views: 841, 2017-06-28, 7:11 pm)
- if you're following the news, the updates you were - given were INCORRECT n/m (Views: 855, 2017-06-29, 1:09 pm)
  - Nope - as usual, you're WRONG - Info came directly from Nuance (Views: 683, 2017-06-29, 2:09 pm)
    - LOL info from Nuance is not exactly the end all - either. You have got to be fairly new here (Views: 619, 2017-06-29, 8:27 pm)