UK's Guardian newspaper breaks news of ransomware attack on itself UK broadsheet media outlet The Guardian has become the victim of a ransomware attack which seems to have taken out a large chunk of office-based systems. Journalists at the center-left newspaper have continued to work from home and publish on its website, but according to the publication's own output, it has been hit by "a …
You spot something has got into your system, cut the infected chunk out and recover from a backup.
Once it is gone and the damage repaired, if you never gave it a chance to announce that it was ransomware, as opposed to something just trying to trash the place for yucks, do you really care?
Nah, not Special Branch, send in Gene Hunt!
He wouldn't bring a truncheon, just the perp.
Hunt: They reckon you’ve got concussion – I couldn’t give a tart’s furry cup if ‘alf your brains are falling out. Don’t ever waltz into my kingdom acting king of the jungle.
Every fule knows he was transferred to the SPG after a series of 117 charges against a gentlemen named Mr Winston Cudoogo of 55 Mercer Road.
Charges included:
Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing.
Smelling of foreign food.
Urinating in a public convenience.
Coughing without due care and attention.
Looking at me in a funny way.
walking on the cracks in the pavement.
Walking in a loud shirt in a built-up area during the hours of darkness and walking around with an offensive wife.
I monitor the corporate mail-server 7/24 and see that the anti-virus performance will delete 80% of incoming malware. If that's happening on other mail servers then there's a potential that someone will receive "paymentupdate_pdf.rar and open it - a malware delivery updated 10 minutes ago and currently undetected by the anti-virus performance.
My protection is to quarantine all risky attachments, that has kept us safe but means that we have a lot of work behind the scenes because virtually all Microsoft files (.doc, .img etc) are infected when they arrive. Basically, the delivery of attachments like these are allowed in many other instances. Other risks are receiving a warning email saying that your password has expired - with a link infection to visit.
LOL Scott, no problem, that was funny. I've always thought that the Guardian's spelling and grammar errors tell me that the stories are written by excellent journalists who are concentrating on what happened, not spelling. Sure, it will make me laugh when I see the spelling but the journalists are busy writing about what happened, not what their editor tells them that they need to say to generate advertising income. I'm not complaining, I'm laughing!
Well, "center-left" is clearly USAzian speak, which translates to something like "rabid right wing" in RotW.
But in the UK, we know The Grauniad to be "left of centre", which would be "Dang Pinkoes" in Yankish.
As for being off-centre, well, some have said that reporting on the floating island of Sans Serif to be eccentric. Though I'd never say they were "off Camber', as they gave a good rating to the Gallivant restaurant and generally say that The Sands are a nice place to visit down in Sussex.
Yeah, musty admit I didn't get that either. The only time I've come across quinoa is the dried packets in Lidl or Aldi. So either it's something "posh" I've not come across until it trickled down the food chain or something for "poor" people. It's clearly a swipe at them, but i can't figure out which type of swipe. Maybe tears in the Tofu would have worked better, especially with the alliteration :-)
"We believe this to be a ransomware attack but are continuing to consider all possibilities."
We believe? It's not a very good ransomware if the victim doesn't know for certain that it is ransomware and also where to pay the ransom. One wonders whether this might not simply be a major IT cock-up using the spectre of ransomware as cover.
How has this not been fixed yet?
I mean The Guardian has the finest investigative IT journalist to unleash on the incident, Carole "Russian bots" Cadwalldr, winner of journalistic awards on the subject of hacking, with loads of "sources" to bail them out.
I expect she's frantically hitting her Macbook's keyboard right now, Googling "IP addresses in Russia"
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