Don't give me black technology

Chapter 124 Looting
After the release of hacking tools, hackers began to package them into various worms, and quickly began to profit for themselves.

UK, in a hospital somewhere in England.

"Have Mr. Glenn's examination results come out?" Faulkner, a tall surgeon, asked the medical staff.

"It has been entered into the system." The medical staff said.

"Very good. After reading his results, I can diagnose his illness." Dr. Faulkner opened the hospital's medical system on the computer, ready to call the patient's pathology data, but he found that no matter how he clicked, he couldn't open it. Open these files.

A password bar appears above, asking him to enter a password.He entered his doctor account password, but the system prompted that the password was wrong.

"Damn, what's going on?" Dr. Faulkner yelled, "Why is the patient's information encrypted? I can't check it? Who the hell set this up? I can't make a diagnosis without this information, they don't know ?"

"Sir, I don't know either." The medical staff said.

"It's really annoying!" Dr. Faulkner complained, and another line of words popped up on his computer, which seemed to be a prompt box with several lines of text written on it.

"Want to know what's wrong with your computer? Let me tell you."

"Some of your important files have been encrypted by me. Photos, pictures, documents, compressed files, audio, video and other files, almost all types of files are encrypted, so they cannot be opened normally."

"These files are not damaged. You can find ways to restore them online. I can guarantee that without our decryption service, even God can't restore these files."

"If you still want these materials, please purchase our decryption service. I guarantee with my personality that our decryption service is absolutely true and effective. If you don't believe me, you can click the button below to recover some files for free."

"But if you want to restore all the documents and materials, you need to pay us. It is best to pay within three days. The longer the delay, the higher our charges."

"If you don't want to believe us, and you haven't paid the fee for more than a week, we will completely delete your file and data, and it will never be retrieved. As for our fee, only three hundred dollars worth of bitcoins... "

After reading the information in these prompt boxes, how could Dr. Faulkner not understand?The patient's pathological data was encrypted by this "person"!And also threatened him to pay a ransom of [-] US dollars, otherwise the data would be deleted!
You must know that this pathological data is obtained by the patient after multiple examinations, and the value is definitely more than three hundred dollars!
And it wasn't just a file that was encrypted, almost all the files in the computer were encrypted!
My own computer, but I can't check anything, Dr. Faulkner is very angry.

"Which bastard's prank is this? This is a hospital, how dare they do something foolish?" Dr. Faulkner decided to ask the network management office of the hospital.

As soon as he arrived at the network management office, Dr. Faulkner saw all the other doctors in the hospital coming.

"Dr. Faulkner, are your computer files also encrypted?" a doctor asked.

"That's right, I can't look at it at all!" said Dr. Faulkner.

"Mine too!" complained the doctor. "It's too bad I'm going to have an operation in three hours and I can't do it without this information."

"What's going on?" Dr. Faulkner wondered, "This has never happened before!"

"Dear gentlemen," shouted the administrator of the network management office, "Unfortunately, I think the reason for all this is that our network has been hacked, and we have no solution for the time being."

"Hackers? If it can't be solved, how will we see a doctor and how will the hospital run?" someone questioned.

The administrator said helplessly: "The news I just got is not that one of our hospitals has been hacked. It's that our national medical service system has been hacked. Now the number of hospitals whose files are encrypted like ours has reached seventeen. Home!"

"We have already called the police, and now we can only wait for the rescue of the police."

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"Seventeen hospitals, within a short period of time, the systems of seventeen hospitals were paralyzed, and the hospitals were shut down." Mark, the head of the British National Cyber ​​Security Center, was simply devastated.

"Mr. Mark, the hackers' attacks have not stopped. Statistics show that in the past few hours, their attack frequency has reached 1 times per hour. Every minute, more computers are attacked!" Subordinate Hui reported .

"So, have you come up with a solution? Do you know how bad the impact is?" Mark has just received a call from above, asking him to solve this matter in the shortest possible time.

The subordinate was embarrassed for a while, "Our experts are already trying their best to decipher this virus. This may be a brand new worm virus, WannaCry (Eternal Blue), which encrypts files in the user's computer and then asks for a ransom. It is called on the Internet. For ransomware."

"Currently, we have no defense against worms."

The ransomware first broke out in the UK, but within a day, it quickly spread to the whole of Europe.

In France, in a computer room of a university, students are in class.

"All students, complete today's task on the computer." Professor Thomson said.

"Professor!" one stood up and shouted, "My computer is locked and I can't open it."

"Me too!" Someone stood up again.

"Professor, my computer can't be turned on, and I need money!"

Professor Thomson looked down, and a prompt box also appeared on his computer. The hackers locked their computer files and asked them to pay a ransom.

A Spanish telecommunications service company suddenly issued an announcement that the company's system was under emergency maintenance, and users could not use some functions.

In France, the official website of a certain government department is also in a state of emergency maintenance, and in the management background, a group of people helplessly look at the prompt box of hacker extortion, unable to do anything.

On the same day, the British BBC and the Evening Standard reported the incident. Not only that, but the Federal News Agency in the United States also reported related incidents.

Viruses are spreading rapidly on the Internet. Not only Europe, but also the United States has been attacked by ransomware. Many companies and enterprises have announced that they have been attacked, and ransomware has also begun to appear in Australia and Asia.

The report claimed: "This is a virus we have never faced before. It is spreading to the whole world. Within a day, dozens of countries and regions have been infected, but network experts have not found a suitable solution. .If it is not contained, it will be a disaster for the internet world!"

(End of this chapter)