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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by eloycoto on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:06AM (#14324582)
Telefonica (the largest telecom operator in Spain) is having the same issue. There are a few thousands of workers that are not working; it's a disaster!
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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by rjtavares on Friday May 12, 2017 @11:13AM (#14324664)
Same in Portugal (confirmed to be affecting PT, one of the biggest telecom companies, and EDP, the biggest electricity company)

https://www.publico.pt/2017/05/12/tecnologia/noticia/ataque-...

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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by anigbrowl on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:44PM (#14326068)
I don't mean to be dramatic here folks, but multiple coordinated infrastructure attacks are a form of warfare. This is literally shaping the battle space. Correlation is not causation and all that, but while people are standing around comparing their knowledge of how to deploy zero-day exploits and which isms it would be satisfying to blame during some future retrospective, the systems we depend on are being actively compromised.
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