timbo343 Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 I might be a bit latd with this but just heard it on the news... oops for the security software and the user who opened the email Lincolnshire County Council hit by £1m malware demand - BBC News
elsiegee40 Posted January 30, 2016 Posted January 30, 2016 It is being discussed in here http://www.edugeek.net/forums/downloads/165421-malwarebytes-anti-ransomware-beta.html but probably deserves its own thread
MatthewL Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 It's causing chaos not been able to work, Fire & Rescue are part of the same network as its a county council F&R and they cannot do anything, no training (lecture wise) as its all presentation and e learning. The only bit not affected is mobilising as its separate. Looking likes its come in on one of the invoice type emails and someone has opened it believe it or not. I can see a few BCP plans coming out of this for those departments that have gone electronic these days.
Nixon77 Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 The emails are getting very good, but reply on mistakes by others. I had the other day, an email "from" a company I had just dealt with, I got an email from the person at the company that handles our account, it looked official, and asked me to open an attached invoice, I almost fell for it. About an hour later another email from the company, this time real, warning us not to open the last fake email, as one of their sales people had opened a dodgy email and this had forwarded a virus to everyone in their contact book.
MatthewL Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 Looks like they are back up and running within a week by all accounts. Bet there has been a fair few hours work put in this week by the IT teams there.
Mr_Jiminy Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 The emails are getting very good, but reply on mistakes by others. I had the other day, an email "from" a company I had just dealt with, I got an email from the person at the company that handles our account, it looked official, and asked me to open an attached invoice, I almost fell for it. About an hour later another email from the company, this time real, warning us not to open the last fake email, as one of their sales people had opened a dodgy email and this had forwarded a virus to everyone in their contact book. What format was the attached file?
Nixon77 Posted January 31, 2016 Posted January 31, 2016 (edited) What format was the attached file? Appeared as a PDF file, I did not open it to find out what it did. The company is on Edugeek, you know who you are. Edited January 31, 2016 by Nixon77
Mr_Jiminy Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 Appeared as a PDF file **Gulp** That's concerning.
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