The WannaCry incident involved the WanaCrypt/WannaCry ransomware.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 73 Details
“this ransomware which was encrypting the files was called WanaCrypt”
Incident
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The 2017 worldwide ransomware outbreak that disrupted organizations including the UK NHS.
The 2017 worldwide ransomware outbreak that disrupted organizations including the UK NHS.
“the world is being hit by a huge ransomware campaign”
2017 ransomware incident used in the episode as an example of cryptocurrency ransom collection and laundering.
“the WannaCry attack was also attributed to the Lazarus Group”
“the money being moved around, moved to different wallets, tumbled”
The 2017 global ransomware outbreak that affected hospitals and other networks and was stopped after a domain in the malware was registered.
“it’s all over the news that this ransomware is infecting lots and lots of British hospitals”
“the domain was a kill switch”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | WannaCry | Explicit | 73 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | WannaCry | Explicit | 119 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | WannaCry | Explicit | 158 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | National Health Service | Explicit | 73 |
| outgoing | TARGETS | National Health Service | Explicit | 73 |
| outgoing | ATTRIBUTED_TO | Lazarus Group | Attributed | 73 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | wormable propagation | Derived | 158 |
The WannaCry incident involved the WanaCrypt/WannaCry ransomware.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 73 Details
“this ransomware which was encrypting the files was called WanaCrypt”
WannaCry INVOLVES National Health Service
The incident hit hospitals in the UK's National Health Service.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 73 Details
“was hitting other hospitals in UK’s NHS, their National Health Service”
WannaCry TARGETS National Health Service
The NHS was among the major networks affected by the worldwide ransomware campaign.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 73 Details
“The NHS is one of the bigger networks to be hit by this”
WannaCry ATTRIBUTED_TO Lazarus Group
A European Union report is said to attribute WannaCry to the Lazarus Group.
Attributed Confidence 93% · Jack Rhysider EP 73 Details
“and conducted WannaCry”
The WannaCry incident is described as a ransomware cyber-attack that infected hundreds of thousands of devices.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Geoff White EP 119 Details
“the WannaCry cyber-attack, the ransomware attack that hit multiple countries”
The WannaCry incident involved the WannaCry ransomware outbreak.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 158 Details
“The ransomware would soon be called WannaCry, and it was hitting tons of hospitals around the UK.”
WannaCry INVOLVES wormable propagation
The WannaCry incident involved unusually rapid wormable propagation across networks.
Derived Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 158 Details
“Hundreds of networks were spreading it to hundreds more.”