Hacked! OMG, Belarus railway system uses Windows XP.

[L. Coyote]

What did the hackers do, call up their retired brethren?

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[lagomorph777]

1. Awesome job!

[Budi]

2. Your move, Lukashenko

Belarus Hackers hit the train system in Belarus to slow Russian army advance.
The hackers infiltrated the railway system with ransomware and will provide the coding key only if President Alexander Lukashenko stopped assisting Russian troops preparing for an invasion of Ukraine.

[SheltieLover]

23. Outfuckingstanding!!!

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[orwell]

3. A lot of these systems...

...even in the US are run on ancient operating systems.

I know some water treatment plants that were running on Windows 2000 here in the US.

It is like pulling teeth to get these operators to upgrade.

It has taken 2 years to get a water plant client of mine to upgrade to Windows 10 and I live in Northern California, 2 hours from Silicon Valley. They previously ran Windows Vista.

This doesn't surprise me at all. The tanks are probably running on Cobol...

[TrogL]

21. Don't laugh too hard

COBOL is still out there. Despite being a but wordy, it's a good reporting language.

[orwell]

29. It's running some power systems in the US...n/m

[highplainsdem]

4. Bravo!!!

[ForgedCrank]

5. Our own US government

is still using Windows XP in some places.
It's outright negligence at this point.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Some weapon systems use floppys. If they are isolated & disconnected from networks, it's OK.

[IronLionZion]

15. There is security in simplicity

many of those old systems are less vulnerable to attack

[ancianita]

12. It can

also be a form of security when no other systems use XP.

[ForgedCrank]

17. HEHE.

the only way for XP to be secure in any form at this date and time is for it to be unplugged from any network, period. There are so many security flaws that are no longer being patched, an amateur would even have a field day with it.

[RKP5637]

6. Phew, not DOS. lol n/t

[moondust]

7. Good trouble.

Fuck Lukashitbag.

[COL Mustard]

9. It might be state of the art for them

At least it’s not Windows Me!

[NullTuples]

20. A frightful number of embedded systems still use XP

[GB_RN]

10. Oops!

Holy Shit! Windows XP was officially EOL'd by Microsoft back in 2014! Having that as your OS is criminally incompetent at this point. Jesus...🤦‍♂️😂

[aeromanKC]

11. Did they get that irritating login phone noise?

[OMGWTF]

16. AOL dial-up was so painful to listen to. Thank Goddess we've moved on.

Remember all of those annoying CDs they blanketed us with? At one point 50% of all CDs manufactured were AOL start-up discs. I remember hearing a story about someone who was so sick of seeing those AOL discs everywhere that they collected a very large number of them and then dumped them at the front door of AOL HQ. Now, they're a collectable.

[COL Mustard]

24. True. But the upside is

That while you're getting that login tone, nobody's asking you about your car's extended warranty, which you know is about to expire!

[packman]

13. wELL, It could be worse

[L. Coyote]

14. Kermit RPN

[calimary]

18. We should take a lesson from this.

So WE’RE not as vulnerable in the future.

This whole thing has been a cautionary tale for those of our leaders who choose to take a lesson from it.

As thorough and experienced as President Biden is, it wouldn’t surprise me if he already assigned some people to start doing something about it.

[FakeNoose]

19. A Norton subscription would have been so much cheaper

Maybe get a VPN while you're at it?

[WarGamer]

22. and all the passwords were "password"??

[COL Mustard]

25. No, they'd upgraded

They were password123

[Cha]

26. Rt TY & Hackers who are Helping

Democracy!:

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Prob Black Box edition too /nt

[Wicked Blue]

28. I hope nobody steals their floppy discs

It could cripple the entire country

[L. Coyote]

30. LOL.