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Here just install this decryption software >

Haha it’s funny because I’m sure they hired some professional experts to advice on this and those guys conferred in a back room and were like umm ya I guess, give it a try? Nothing to lose really. >

almost verbatim. lucky it worked. :) >

TIL there are affiliate schemes in ransomware, so there are incentives for disgruntled employees anywhere to deliberately bring in the ransomware to let loose in their workplace. >

I worked for a public bus company that got hit with the CONTI ransom. They wanted 1.3mil for decryption, so the bus company opted to rebuild the servers rather than pay. It happened months before I got there but the backups did have small traces of the CONTI ransomware on network folders.
Edit: spelling >

Translink? >

I always wonder why does Vancouver pop up everywhere. >

Vancouver is a centre for software development, biotechnology, aerospace, video game development, and animation studios, it has the largest port in Canada and the fourth largest in North America, is considered a gateway city to the east, and has the 3rd largest film & TV production centre in North America, plus its location is pretty beautiful and has a temperate climate at least for now. >

I’m from Vancouver and this little description was so nice it made me feel bad for speaking ill of it all the time haha >

Downtown still always smells like pee, though. >

The either have some moral standards or just don’t wanna get in trouble for endangering lives. >

It's more likely B. Ransomware Sobeys so autocheckouts are down for 2 weeks? Noone gives s shit. Ransomware on SickKids? People would be baying for blood. >

Ransomware attacks on hospitals, make that attempted murder charges with the death penalty mandatory if they are found and convicted. >

Well, this is in Canada and we don’t have the death penalty. But I agree with charging them with multiple counts of attempted murder. >

2 years probation and some community service is the best we can do. >

That's not true, we are way too "tough on crime" in Canada as it stands. >

You're kidding right? >

First of all, what a name for a hospital. No beating around the bush there. 
Second, having a code of ethics as a ransomeware company is hilarious. Whatever helps them sleep better at night. While they may not shut down select healthcare facilities they think could lead to death, shutting down any sort of medical office could cause death, and if not,  will definitely cause undue human suffering. >

"SickKids" is the branding for the hospital. The actual name is The Hospital for Sick Children. But in Toronto, we almost always say, "Sick Kids." >

"Hospital for sick children who want to learn to read and do other stuff good to" >

Sounds like a line from Trailer Park Boys >

It's a Zoolander reference >

Ahhhh that makes sense lol >

When literal criminals won't cross a line BigPharma does daily, amirite? >

Hey, they’re criminals with links to terrorism and rogue states… they’re not monsters. >

Underrated comment >

Agree. >

i’m in IT … had a local community non-profit kids crafts and learning center get their qnap encrypted. contacted the number explaining who and what was affected and that no funds were available. they provided a key to decrypt as well. all data was recovered, qnap removed from web.
not all bad people are bad all the time.
that was a good day. >

Cue “You are bad guy, but this does not mean you bad guy” >

It’s not “Sick Kids” (cough)  it’s “Sick Kids” (kick flip) >

Ransomware Gang realizes if their identities were ever exposed to the public for killing kids as a result of their ransomware, they'd never make it to trial. Even if they did, prison would take care of them real quick.
This wasn't done out of any morality. It was done as self-preservation. >

Even criminals have a sort of criminal society that they fit into, and the status-consciousness that goes with it. >

Yeah. OP is too quick to assume pure evil. It might surprise some people to learn even criminals can have a conscience >

While often true, if you read the article you’ll see they’ve targeted hospitals before. Not sure these particular folks should get any credit for having a conscience. >

I’ll give them Ø credit. They can suck bricks. >

Well, at least they did the right thing here. Seriously tho, what special kind of fucking prick attacks a hospital for sick children? >

Russia >

You are bad guy  
But this does not mean you are bad guy >

nope, still a bad guy >

I get that this is what they're saying now, but a child, or multiple children, could have died or been maimed by this. >

"yeah we're going to take your money and deploy ransomware on whoever you want us to deploy it on but oh boy if you go after children's hospitals we're going to shut you out"
weird morals to have >

No it's not, it's basic Robin Hood mentality, steal from the rich for the "poor". Only thing here is they actually have the morals to give the shit back they didn't want to have on their conscious >

It goes deeper, its like, you can be the bad guy, but you cant kill dogs, no one likes that. Like prison rulez, be a murderer but dont rape kids. Check out the bad guys in like south America. If they targeted a hospital. The entire city would lynch them. >

There is honour among thieves after all >

There is more honour amongst thieves than there is amongst diplomats. >

Truer words were never spoken. >

I agree with the idea mentioned in a few thread here that cyberattacks on infrastructure that directly keeps people alive in the immediate term should be considered attempted manslaughter or even murder. 
For a different example to clarify the point: shutting down an airport flight booking system wouldnt generally fall into this category because it generally wouldnt directly result in anyones death, but cyber hijacking a plane itself and steering it remotely or via preprogrammed malware into the ground should absolutely be considered murder.
Imo, launching a cyber attack on a hospital, especially a childrens hospital, in any way that affects the hospitals ability to care for patients in critical condition such that the lasp in care could cause patients to die should be considered attempted manslaughter at the least. >

Eh, most places have laws to protect the rich, so financial crimes of this magnitude often already carry sentences en par with manslaughter and they still can’t catch anyone. 
It’s a nice idea but I don’t think it’d make any difference. What’s needed is a strong framework to cut off their revenue stream. You need to make paying the ransom and hiding the attack too expensive for companies to consider. 
Nobody’s figured out the answer completely, but it seems the answer will lie in something like stiff financial penalties that exceed any ransom paid combined with annual digital accounting to prevent companies hiding attacks. Basically cutting off the money is the only fix that will really work, but it has to be done in a way that doesn’t lead to companies just trying to hide their jacks even more than they already do >

They're not catching anyone because these guys operate out of Iran, North Korea, Russia, and probably a few other Eastern European countries, often with the support of the state. This was not done by a random dude in Toronto. >

100% accurate >

When thieves have a higher moral ethic than the owners of the US health care system. >

Professionals have standards. >

Would they be able to use that decryptor for anyone else that gets targeted with ransomware? >

Not really. If the ransomware crew was super lazy and used an encryptor that used the same key for multiple attacks you could. But why would they? Generating new key pairs is trivial. >

Laughs in Kaseya >

Dawww how nice of them. >

Things like this sound like a side plot in a futuristic video game from the mid 90s. >

I hate those fucking geeks, get a real job! >

Sounds like you are just upset you don't grasp the technical skillset required for such an act. >

Yea! And anyone who has problems with breaking and entering or mugging just lack the courage to do it. >

When ransomware gangs have better ethics then big pharma 😬 >

Very skewed logic >

Ransomware as a service.......I hate you all >

Everyone has morals, that doesn't mean they have good morals... Backing out for kids doesn't balance what they've done, claiming ignorance of the target doesn't excuse that the target is everyone. Hail captain Zap! >

Morality or not I'll take it. Hack Walmart or bank of America or whatever but leave the hospitals out of it (unless it's the payment part, hack that part as much as you want, just don't endanger people who need medical help). >

Uh... so there's a children's hospital called SickKids?
Every day we come closer to Idiocracy. >

Are they pretending that what they're doing doesn't always have victims? >

Criminals can have morals, even if the morals they have are skewed. There aren't as many that are willing to harm a child to get what they want as one might fear. But there is still more than you'd like to exist. >

What a sweet gesture, and I hope they rot in jail for it. >

TIL someone who has or had a sick kid, works with a ransom wear company…..