full-disclosure - Re: Fwd: Three London hospitals have been forced to shut down their entire computer systems for at least 24 hours after being hit by a virus

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:14:28 +0000
From: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>
To: "Jeff MacDonald" <jam@...dtechnologies.com>, 
	full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Fwd: Three London hospitals have been forced
	to shut down their entire computer systems for at least 24
	hours after being hit by a virus

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Jeff MacDonald
<jam@...dtechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 11:06:20 am n3td3v wrote:
>> Three London hospitals have been forced to shut down their entire
>> computer systems for at least 24 hours after being hit by a virus.
> [...snipped...]
>> The spokesman said the virus was "not malicious", and the infection
>> was "self-contained".
>>
>
> How did the computer(s) get infected?
>

According to n3td3v sources it was the Mytob worm that done it...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Subject: Computer virus infects three London hospitals
To: n3td3v <n3td3v@...glegroups.com>

The virus is believed to be the Mytob worm, which spreads via e-mail
and plants a backdoor Trojan on infected computers that can be used to
remotely take control of the machine, according to security firm
Sophos.

"There will, no doubt, be concerns that the confidentiality of
patients' data may have been put at risk, and the hospitals will
surely be keen to reassure the public that security has been
maintained," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos,
wrote in a post on his blog.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10101392-83.html

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