Targeted electronic attacks on Friday, thousands of institutions and individuals. It was controlled on 75 thousand attacks in 99 countries, in the largest piracy operation in history. It was hacking by a malicious program to extort money. She appealed to the US and UK authorities intent not to pay the ransom, and to update information security programs, and electronic anti-virus.
US and British authorities Friday from a vague wave of electronic attacks targeted at the same time, "many countries of the world" by a malicious program to extort money, and appealed to the victims of these attacks, non-payment Of the pirates.
It seems that the hackers took advantage of a flaw in the operation of the "Windows" systems revealed in the secret documents of the US National Security Agency "NSA" hacked.
"Today, we saw a series of electronic attacks targeting thousands of institutions and individuals in dozens of countries. "
The agency recommended to update the information security and anti-virus programs.
For its part, the US Department of Homeland Security said in a statement, "I have received several reports of my appeals program for victims to pay ransoms .... We urge individuals and organizations not to pay because it does not yet guarantee the recovery of data. "
Excited this wave of cyber-attacks "on a global level" information security experts concern who drew attention to the malicious program locked users targeted users, and forced them to pay a sum of money in the form Of "Petkuyenz" compared to reopening.
And on Friday night at 8:00 PM GMT, Jacob wrote official information on the security company avast on the blog, "We have spotted over 75 thousand attacks in 99 countries. "
For its part, "Vorsboynt Security Labs", said the company also specializes in information security that it has spotted "a large campaign of infected emails" with the malicious informational virus, confirming that the Pace of attack this virus infected messages have on average five million messages per hour.
The researcher who uses the name "@ Maloyr_tek_plog" especially on Twitter tells AFP that the hackers "were particularly based on the domain name of a message is not registered and so when we stopped the spread Of the malicious program. "
But this solution reached by the coincidence of the researchers does not allow the devices that hit. The researcher stressed the need for users to "update their systems as quickly as possible" to avoid exposure to attacks.
Confusion in British hospitals
According to analysts, targeted attacks organizations in Spain, Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy and Mexico. In the company "FedEx" express courier United States acknowledged their vulnerability to attacks.
In Moscow, the Russian Interior Ministry announced Friday night that its computers were for "a viral attack", but without specifying whether it comes to the attack itself.
Targeted cyber attacks, as well as the public health service in Britain "said HP as" What Shell computers are working in many hospitals across the country.
Management has tried to "HP like" to reassure the population by saying "at this point we have no element to suggest that access to patient data. "
But the attacks caused confusion in dozens of hospitals, which had to cancel medical procedures and ambulances in other hospitals.
He announced the National Center of British e-security "We are aware that these attacks on emergency services have a significant impact on patients and their families and we all strive to re-work in these vital organs. "
And picked up the social networking images of computer screens belonging to the public health service is required to pay the ransom of $ 300 in the form of the words "I encrypt your files. "
The hackers asked for a ransom to pay within three days, otherwise the amount will increase to double but if payment is not yet seven days will be deleted files.
Published "Microsoft" security patch a few months ago to fill this gap, but most devices are not updated.
Inc. "Kaspersky" for information security said that "Shadow Brooks" published malicious Pirates of the group in April / April last program indicates that it is this flaw of documents discovered hacked from the agency as "SA".
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