China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomware Attack

Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by smhenderson on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:01PM (#14345533)

Hmm, the article is light on stats for western countries. I know the NHS in England got hit hard but I haven't heard much about the he rest of Europe or the US.

If I were more paranoid than I am I would wonder if this NSA "leak" was by design.

But probably not, never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance I guess!

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by jorvi on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:19PM (#14345666)

In the Netherlands all that got hit was a few parking garages, along with a bunch of random people caught in the line of fire.

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by connorcpu on Monday May 15, 2017 @06:52PM (#14345897)

FedEx got hit, but I haven't heard about much spread over here. I guess people here are more likely to have installed a windows update in the last month and a half? :p

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by jobigoud on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @12:10AM (#14347307)

Renault has been infected. They had to shut down factories.

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by linkregister on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:31PM (#14346134)

Maybe to drive users away from Windows to SELinux! ;)

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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by smhenderson on Monday May 15, 2017 @07:34PM (#14346154)

That's a conspiracy I can get behind.

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