WannaCry hits Honda car plant in Japan

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… and, according to Reuters, they shut the plant down. The automaker shut production on Monday at its Sayama plant, northwest of Tokyo… Production
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It’s not clear from your post what “the block” means. Something that doesn’t prevent infection but does prevent encryption? What exactly is that something?

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Block is DNS record (domain)

Please refer to 🙂

https://www.bluecatnetworks.com/blog/2017/05/17/dns-helped-stop-wannacry-ransomware-attack/

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Ah, the sinkhole server “kill switch”. Thanks.

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So to be clear, they were unpatched. But somehow they discovered that they had been repeatedly attacked. But only after multiple successful infections. This does indeed smell fishy.

-- rc primak

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The odor may come from the journalist translating from another language? I have no real insight to this, so may not be helping. But for the most part I find engineers are usually very clear when conversing in their native language.

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WannaCry Ransomware Infects 55 Speed and Red-Light Cameras in Australia
By Catalin Cimpanu | June 22, 2017

Fifty-five speed and red-light cameras in the Australia’s state of Victoria were infected with the WannaCry ransomware.

The incident took place last week and was brought to light by a local radio station. According to current information, the infection took place during maintenance operations, as a human operator connected an infected USB to the devices, which were apparently running on a Windows OS.

 
Read the full article here

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I was about to say “Hooray for Ransomware (for once)” but then noted that the story goes on to say “Despite being infected, the cameras remained online and continued to function.” 😉

Windows 10 Home 22H2, Acer Aspire TC-1660 desktop + LibreOffice, non-techie

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Victoria’s Acting Deputy Commissioner Ross Guenther told reporters on Friday that about 590 fines issued from the speed and red-light cameras found to be infected with WannaCry have been cancelled.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/victoria-cancels-590-fines-in-wake-of-wannacry-infection/

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Yesterday when this became public, the fines were going to stay whether infected or not. There was an outcry from the public and after much back-pedalling they said they would cancel them. There are other fines that have not been issued yet and will be “quarantined” until Monday.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/vic-police-cancels-590-road-fines-after-wannacry-infection-466202

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