Merck is the target of a massive hack [wanna cry]

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 6-26-17 | Chris Mondics

[markomalley]

Merck & Co. the global pharmaceutical firm with extensive operations in the Philadelphia area, said this morning its computer networks had been the target of a massive hack.

[Enchante]

Nasty!! This thing seems pretty huge.....

[grobdriver]

It’s the first one where they’ve figured out how to infect network drives and thereby infect the whole company from one dumb shit falling for a phishing email.

[MeganC]

Petya ransomware?

[MarchonDC09122009]

Merck Inc has likely been affected by today’s malware ransomware attack called: Ethernalblue Petya (related to last month’s wannacry ransomware).

I posted this as VirusTotal admin site news broke:

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3564492/posts

[RitchieAprile]

malwarebytes article on Petya/Mischa:

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/12/goldeneye-ransomware-the-petyamischa-combo-rebranded/

[shanover]

Billion dollar global company whose network is infected by a line of code probably started by some kid in a basement.

[upchuck]

It's not 'wanna cry' as you indicated in the headline. From the article:

Tuesday’s attacks used a different form of ransomware similar to a virus known as Petrwrap or Petya, according to Costin Raiu, director of Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab.

[thoughtomator]

Billion dollar company probably with an IT staff stuffed with Indians and Pakistanis who got hired on the strength of qualifications skills and experience they don’t actually have.

[armourenthusiast]

I wouldn’t want to be them. Management update calls every few hours around the clock for updates. If you are on-call you are hosed for the foreseeable future.

[Seruzawa]

Yeah. It’s so funny. Cheating on tests is a pandemic disease in India. Damn few of their grads graduate honestly. These companies who hire cheap H1 Indian engineers get what they deserve.

[tired&retired]

Tell Merck to just take a pill and chill.

[sagar]

“by a line of code probably started by some kid in a basement”

By ‘some kid’, you mean the CIA and by ‘a basement’, you mean Northern Syria. Oh, wait, this is hacking. RUSSIANS DID IT!

[dsc]

Are they telling us they can’t find these criminals?

[NativeSon]

When they are interviewed via phone, the guy answering all the interviewer’s questions, is not the person you are hiring...

[HollyB]

I’m curious if this computer hack involves not just office computers, but lab related information, i.e..mixing of meds.