After the hacking tools were released, hackers began to package them into various worms and quickly began to make profits for themselves.
England, in a hospital somewhere in England.
"Have the results of Mr. Glenn's examination 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 will be able to diagnose his illness." Dr. Faulkner opened the hospital's medical system on the computer and was about to open the patient's pathology data, but he found that no matter how many clicks he made, he could not open it.
Open these information.
A password field appeared on it, asking him to enter his password. He entered his doctor account password, but the system prompted that the password was wrong.
"Damn, what's going on?" Dr. Faulkner shouted. "Why is the patient's information encrypted? I can't see it yet? Who the fuck set this up? I can't diagnose without this information, they don't know
?”
"Sir, I don't know either," the medical staff said.
"It's really irritating!" Dr. Faulkner complained, and another line of text 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 and saved by me. Photos, pictures, documents, compressed packages, audio, video and other files, almost all types of files are encrypted and therefore cannot be opened normally."
"These files are not damaged. You can find ways to recover them online. I can guarantee that without our decryption service, even God cannot recover these files."
"If you still want this information, please purchase our decryption service. I personally guarantee that our decryption service is absolutely authentic and effective. If you don't believe it, you can click the button below to recover some files for free."
"But if you want to recover all the files, you need to pay us a fee. It is best to pay within three days. The longer the delay, the higher our charges will be."
"If you don't want to believe us and haven't paid the fee for more than a week, we will completely delete your file information and it will never be retrieved. As for our fee, it only costs three hundred dollars worth of Bitcoin...
"
After reading the information in these prompt boxes, how could Dr. Faulkner not understand? The patient's pathology data was encrypted by this "person"! He also threatened that he must pay a ransom of three hundred dollars, otherwise the data would be deleted.
!
You know, this pathological information was obtained by the patient after multiple examinations, and its value is definitely more than three hundred US dollars!
And it wasn’t just one file that was encrypted, almost all the files on his computer were encrypted!
But he couldn't check anything on his computer, and Dr. Faulkner was very angry.
"Which bastard's prank is this? This is a hospital, how dare they do this?" Dr. Faulkner decided to go to the hospital's network management office to ask.
As soon as he arrived at the network management office, Dr. Faulkner saw other doctors in the hospital arriving.
"Dr. Faulkner, are your computer files also encrypted?" a doctor asked.
"That's right, I can't see 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. Without this information, I can't do the operation at all."
"What's going on?" Dr. Faulkner wondered, "This has never happened before!"
"Dear gentlemen," the administrator of the Network Management Office shouted loudly, "Unfortunately, I think the reason for all this is because our network has been attacked by hackers, and we have no solution for the time being."
"Hackers? If we can't solve it, how will we see the doctor and how will the hospital run?" someone asked.
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 there are seventeen hospitals with encrypted files like ours."
Home!"
"We have already called the police and now we can only wait for the police to rescue us."
…
"Seventeen hospitals, the systems of seventeen hospitals were paralyzed and the hospitals were shut down in a short period of time." Mark, the person in charge of the British National Cyber Security Center, was really worried.
"Mr. Mark, the hackers' attacks have not stopped. Data shows that in the past few hours, their attack frequency has reached 4,000 times per hour. Every minute, more computers are infected!" reported the subordinate report.
.
"So, have you come up with a solution? Do you know how bad this impact is?" Mark has just received a call from above, asking him to solve the 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). It encrypts the files in the user's computer and then demands a ransom. It is called on the Internet
For ransomware."
"Currently, we don't have any defense against worms."
The ransomware virus first broke out in the UK, but in less than a day, it quickly spread throughout Europe.
In France, in a computer room of a university, students are taking classes.
"All students will complete today's assignments on the computer," Professor Thomson said.
"Professor!" A man stood up and shouted, "My computer is locked and cannot be opened."
"Mine too!" Another person stood up.
"Professor, my computer can't be opened, and I still need money!"
Professor Thomson looked down and saw a prompt box also appeared on his computer. The hackers had 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 were unable to use some functions.
In France, the official website of a certain government department also fell into a state of emergency maintenance, and in the management background, a group of people helplessly looked at the blackmail prompt box from hackers, with nothing to do.
On the same day, the British BBC and Evening Standard reported this incident. Not only that, the Federal News Agency in the United States also reported related incidents.
Viruses spread quickly on the Internet. Not only Europe, but also the United States has been attacked by ransomware viruses. Many companies and enterprises have announced that they have been attacked, and ransomware viruses have also begun to appear in Australia and Asia.
The report claimed: “This is a virus we have never faced before. It is spreading around the world. Within a day, dozens of countries and regions have been infected, but network experts have not found a suitable solution.
.If it cannot be contained, it will be a disaster for the Internet world!"