FBI Blocked Planned Cyberattack on Children's Hospital - Slashdot

Posted by msmash

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    This is your takeaway from the article?

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      Calling the kids in a Children's Hospital 'sick kids' is pretty sickening if you ask me. Maybe they are just kids and we don't have to qualify that by calling them sick.

      Maybe Wray is sick in the head and belongs in the hospital himself.

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          It is offensive. The kids that need to be at Children's Hospital are just kids. Good, normal, every day kids, not 'sick kids'. The only sick part is Wray taking advantage of those kids. Help them in one sense while calling them names? What an asshole.

• That's gonna restrict growth & appreciation on crypto bros' investments, i.e. the crypto intangible assets that are usually used to pay the ransoms. Why do those damn sick kids have to get in the way of profits?!

• Huh, that's weird. Usually they let attacks happen and then wring their hands and say it's proof they need a bigger budget to prevent it. They probably lost money on that one.

• by BardBollocks ( 1231500 ) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:48PM (#62584644)

  What does "Iran" gain by attacking a children's hospital?

  What a load of shit:)

  What a load of idiots for believing it:D

  Smart money is on someone who is an enemy of Iran false flagging. Is there anyone out there with a history of perpetrating false flag attacks against the US to frame their enemies? (if you don't know the answer, you aren't paying attention to history).

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  • billing info? kids ssn's?

    billing info? kids ssn's?

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      That's factually false. He DOSed the entire class B IP space. 65,536 IPs. This caused disruption for not only the entire hospital, but all the doctors' offices, labs, etc around the campus surrounding the hospital. Thousands and thousands of patients.

      Re "child abuse", the state department of children's services fpund that pumping her full of unnecessary drugs and performing other unneeded medical procedures was child abuse. The doctors at Childrens complied with (and agreed with) the finding of the state.

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      It wasn't hidden, it says it was Boston Children's Hospital.

      The only thing I can find on this is Pelletier. The jury found on the side of the hospital. I wasn't there, and I don't have the actual facts. If you had some other instance in mind, feel free to enlighten me.

      A member of Anonymous. I'm not going to assign mortality to what they do, but they're more than activisists. And yes, DDOS can fall within cyberterrorism.

      It says it was based off of the hospitals technology. To me, that says the hospital alrea

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    We (Iran) are going to literally run out of electricity for summer, economy is free falling by the hour, officials have no idea how to deal with grain shortage, 70% of the annual government budget belongs to the brain washing religious programs and each month there's an official fleeing to EU/US/Canada with huge chunks of stolen people's money, I feel like the regime can't afford to fund a cyber attack on a children's hospital in Boston TBH. Saying that, The Iranian intelligence is right after journalist

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    I think you may be right because the FBI is absolutely desperate for good PR. This story is clearly a plant. "Look! We saved a children's hospital! Aren't we amazing heroes?"

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      I'm no fan of the FBI, but it's not really like they can blab about all the stuff they do for fear of giving away the "how" of what they do. Standard operational security. I'm surprised they actually said anything about this at all.

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    It's not Iran per se but rather a group that the Iranian government has paid ("sponsored") in the past. Their actions are likely unconnected to the concerns of the Iranian government which means this was just cybercrime. More than likely this would have been a ransomware attack.

• The Iranian governments strategic vision to fuck with the USA is to attack a Children's hospital ?

  It could very well be that some particular people in the iranian government are that fucking stupid, after all they probably have the Iranian version of Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, but i really find it hard to believe tha this is what they thought passed as a brilliant attack on the great Satan.

  Maybe just a distraction while they went after a more worthwhile target ?

  Could it have originated in Iran ? of course. Did

• Seriously, this sounds just like the things the FBI always comes up with to solve- just like all the foiled "terror" attacks that it turns out they financed and setup and found a dumb patsy to cary out.