Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by GedByrne on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:18PM (#14325820)

It says the attack hit multiple sites simultaneously. A worker said that the ransomware came through on the computers around 2pm.

This doesn't sound like a spread by phishing or attachment.

How could such an attach be co-ordinated?

I can think of two possibilities:

1) The attack has been spreading over days or weeks with a trigger date for activation. 2) The ransomware has been distributed through the desktop update system.

Any other ideas?

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Re:Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack by detaro on Friday May 12, 2017 @01:19PM (#14325827)

3) The internal networks are open enough that something worm-y can rapidly spread through bugs in common services (file shares or something like that), once it has infected one internal machine through some other channel.

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