Carleton University Windows systems infected with ransomware

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Barthheart

November 30, 2016, 10:23:40 AM
Man, I work from home for 1 day and all hell breaks loose. This all started yesterday:

QuoteA graduate student at the university emailed CBC to say the attackers have asked for payment in bitcoin, a digital currency that is difficult to trace. According to a message he saw on a school computer, the attackers are asking for either two bitcoin per machine, or 39 bitcoin total to release the encrypted files — the latter equalling nearly $38,941 at today's rate on the popular Bitcoin exchange Coinbase.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ransomware-carleton-university-computers-bitcoin-infects-1.3872702

Now, the physics department, where I work, is on it's own network and email servers so we're not directly affected which is good. But it means we're told not to electronically communicate with the rest of the University until they get this figured out.....

bbmike

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November 30, 2016, 10:38:05 AM
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

mirth

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November 30, 2016, 10:39:05 AM
Quote from: bbmike on November 30, 2016, 10:38:05 AM
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?

:2funny:
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

bayonetbrant

#3
November 30, 2016, 10:42:29 AM
better start watching youtube videos for bitcoins! :)
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mirth

#4
November 30, 2016, 10:43:05 AM
frakkin toasters!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Barthheart

#5
November 30, 2016, 10:43:59 AM
Quote from: bbmike on November 30, 2016, 10:38:05 AM
So basically the physics department is the Battlestar Galactica of Carleton?

Yeah, that's it!


mirth

#6
November 30, 2016, 10:46:12 AM Last Edit: November 30, 2016, 10:49:44 AM by mirth
Battlestar CUDoPh
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Sir Slash

#7
November 30, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us.  :coolsmiley:
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Bison

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November 30, 2016, 10:53:13 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 30, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us.  :coolsmiley:

Only much better more attractive.

Barthheart

#9
November 30, 2016, 10:54:46 AM
Yeah.... no one in physics looks like that.....  :P

More like this...

mirth

#10
November 30, 2016, 10:56:03 AM
Quote from: Bison on November 30, 2016, 10:53:13 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on November 30, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
Careful. Some of 'them' look like us.  :coolsmiley:

Only much better more attractive.


I'd join the toasters.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Sir Slash

#12
November 30, 2016, 02:34:15 PM
I'd Frak that. If she didn't crush my skull afterward.  Still might be worth it.
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

bob48

#13
November 30, 2016, 02:37:57 PM
...your skull is the least of your worries.........
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!
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