After the hacking tools were announced, hackers began to package them as worms of various kinds, and quickly began to profit for themselves.

In England, in a hospital somewhere in England.

"Are Mr. Glenn's test results out?" Faulkner, the tall surgeon, asked the paramedics.

"It's already entered into the system. The paramedics said.

"Very well, I was able to diagnose his condition after reading his results. Dr. Faulkner opened the hospital's medical system on the computer, ready to call up the patient's pathological data, but he found that no matter how much he clicked, he couldn't open the data.

A password field appears above and asks him to enter his password. He entered his doctor's account password, but the system prompted that the password was wrong.

"Damn, what's going on?" Dr. Faulkner exclaimed, "Why is the patient's information encrypted? I can't see it yet? Which bastard set it up? I can't make a diagnosis without it, don't they know?"

"Sir, I don't know. The paramedics said.

"It's infuriating!" Dr. Faulkner grumbled, and another line popped up on his computer, like a prompt box with a few 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, archives, audio, videos, and other files, almost all types of files are encrypted, so they cannot be opened normally. ”

"These files are not damaged, you can find a way to recover them online, and I can guarantee that without our decryption service, even God would not be able to recover them." ”

"If you still want this information, please buy our decryption service, I vouch for the integrity of our decryption service, which is absolutely authentic and effective. If you don't believe me, you can click the button below to recover some of your files for free. ”

"But if you want to recover all the documents, you'll have to pay us a fee. It's best to pay within three days, the longer the delay, the higher our charge. ”

"If you don't want to believe us and haven't paid for more than a week, we'll completely delete your file and you'll never get it back. As for our fees, we only need $300 worth of Bitcoin......"

After reading the information in these prompt boxes, how could Dr. Faulkner not understand? The patient's pathological data was encrypted by this "person"! He also threatened him to pay a ransom of $300 or else he would delete the data!

You must know that this pathological information was obtained by the patient after a number of examinations, and the value is definitely more than 300 US dollars!

And he was not only encrypted with one file, but almost all the files on the computer!

His own computer, but he couldn't check anything, and Dr. Faulkner was very angry.

"What kind of bastard is this prank, this is the hospital, and they dare to come here?" Dr. Faulkner decided to ask the hospital's network administration.

As soon as he arrived at the network administration, Dr. Faulkner saw that the other doctors in the hospital had arrived.

"Dr. Faulkner, are your computer files also encrypted?" one doctor asked.

"yes, I can't see it at all!" Dr. Faulkner said.

"Mine too!" the doctor complained, "it's so bad that I'm going to have an operation in three hours, and I can't do it without that information." ”

"What the hell is going on?" wondered Dr. Faulkner, "nothing like this has ever happened before!"

"Distinguished gentlemen. "Unfortunately, I think the reason for all this is because our network has been hacked, and we don't have a solution for it for the time being." ”

"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 NHS has been hacked, and now there are seventeen hospitals where files are encrypted like ours!"

"We have called the police and now we can only wait for the police to rescue us. ”

......

"Seventeen hospitals, in a short period of time, the system of seventeen hospitals was paralyzed, and the hospitals were shut down. "Mark is in charge of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre, and he is simply overwhelmed.

"Mr. Mark, the hackers are not stopping, the data shows that in the last few hours, their attack frequency has reached 4,000 per hour. Every minute, more computers get hit!", the subordinate reported.

"So, do you guys come up with a solution? do you know how bad this is?" Mark had just received a call from above, asking him to fix the matter in the shortest possible time.

"Our experts are already trying their best to decipher this virus, which may be a brand new worm, WannaCry (Eternal Blue), which encrypts files on the user's computer and then demands a ransom, which the network calls a ransomware virus." ”

"At the moment, we don't have a way to defend against worms. ”

The ransomware virus first broke out in the UK, but within a day, it was spreading rapidly across Europe.

In France, in the computer room of a university, students are in class.

"All students, complete today's task on the computer. Professor Thomson said.

"Professor!" shouted one of them, standing up, "my computer is locked and won't be opened. ”

"Mine too!" someone stood up again.

"Professor, my computer won't turn on, and you still need me to give money!"

Professor Thomson looked down and saw a prompt box on his computer, where hackers had locked their computer files and asked them to pay a ransom.

A telecommunications service company in Spain suddenly issued an announcement that the company's system was urgently maintained, and users could not use some functions.

In France, the official website of a government department has also fallen into a state of emergency maintenance, and in the management background, a group of people helplessly look at the prompt box of the hacker's extortion, and there is nothing to be done.

On the same day, the British BBC and the Standard Evening News reported on the incident, and not only that, but the federal news agency in the United States also reported the relevant incident.

The virus is spreading quickly on the Internet, not only in Europe, but also in the United States, which has been attacked by ransomware, and many companies and enterprises have been announced to be attacked, and ransomware viruses have also begun to appear in Australia and Asia.

"This is a virus that we have never faced before, it is spreading to the whole world, and within a day, dozens of countries and regions have been hit, but cyber experts have not found a suitable solution," the report claimed. If it can't be contained, it's going to be a disaster for the internet world!"