WannaCry ransomware attack
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Oct 29, 2026
BlakeNARRATOR
Pay the ransom.
BlakeNARRATOR
The world has just been hit by WannaCry.
BlakeNARRATOR
And WannaCry is using EternalBlue.
BlakeNARRATOR
A weapon developed for a nation-state intelligence operation has been transformed into a global ransomware weapon.
BlakeNARRATOR
It spreads automatically, computer to computer to computer.
Jason PopillionHOST
And and then they leaked it out, you know, through this auction.
Jason PopillionHOST
And then all of a sudden you start seeing people using it.
Jason PopillionHOST
And then and and you saw WannaCry and systems started shutting down, even despite the fact that Microsoft sent out a zero day patch for it.
TannerHOST
Yes, and it's typically part of a larger attack.
TannerHOST
You know, previously back in the day, whenever security was much worse, you had things like WannaCry, which affected – I don't even remember how many.
TannerHOST
It was several hundred thousand, if not millions of users.
TannerHOST
And they were like home users largely.
TannerHOST
But yeah, and that would be, hey, your file systems are encrypted.
TannerHOST
Come pay us and we'll unlock your stuff.
TannerHOST
Even though I don't think WannaCry had an unlock.
TannerHOST
But people still paid.
David CrawfordHOST
But I might send them to listen to you for the sort of communication bit, right? And you did – one of your podcast articles was on this a little while ago about – You know, CISOs, security professionals, not the best at sort of human communication, right? So just tell us, because I dare say in the organizations you've been in, you've been through a few cyber incidents, right? Tell us what that human face, what that human engagement across an organization looks like during a cyber incident.
Ant DavisGUEST
So I was part of a small team that was dealing with WannaCry during my time at Ocado.
Ant DavisGUEST
And I was another large UK food retailer when M&S and Co-op got hit last year.
Ant DavisGUEST
And communication is really key.
David CrawfordHOST
But I might send them to listen to you for the sort of communication bit, right? And you did – one of your podcast articles was on this a little while ago about – You know, CISOs, security professionals, not the best at sort of human communication, right? So just tell us, because I dare say in the organizations you've been in, you've been through a few cyber incidents, right? Tell us what that human face, what that human engagement across an organization looks like during a cyber incident.
Ant DavisGUEST
So I was part of a small team that was dealing with WannaCry during my time at Ocado.
Ant DavisGUEST
And I was another large UK food retailer when M&S and Co-op got hit last year.
Ant DavisGUEST
And communication is really key.
Ciarán MartinGUEST
I was in office in the UK government at that time, and I was properly scared.
Ciarán MartinGUEST
It's the scariest I've been in my career because we had WannaCry in May 2017.
Ciarán MartinGUEST
We had NotPetya in June 2017.
Ciarán MartinGUEST
Two nation state actors, North Korea and Russia, who you would think would know better than just release absolute chaos on the internet.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
On whether there will be an AI-assisted cyberattack resulting in losses in excess of $1 billion in either crypto or fiat currency by the end of 2027, forecasters now estimate that there is a 69%, 35% to 85% chance.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
They note that this is more likely than not given recent demonstrations, that there have been plenty of $1 billion plus cyber incidents historically, not Petya, WannaCry, Jaguar Land Rover, Equifax, Bybit.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
that policymakers would likely have to take very strong actions very soon to avoid such threats and worse, and that crypto provides a juicy attack surface.
Type 3 AudioNARRATOR
On the more physical possibility of whether there will be a cyberattack that causes a power outage affecting greater than 50,000 customers in the US, EU, or UK by December 31, 2027, forecasters think there's an 8.2%, 5% to 12% chance.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
The thing that people remember, the anchor that makes it real to normal people is usually like the consequence, right? Like how did this get used? What impact did it have, right? Like most people in the real world don't remember Eternal Blue.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
They remember WannaCry.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
The whole real world remembers WannaCry, and I, you know, I have a feeling for a variety of reasons, but I'm sure that anyone at NSA would tell you, as you might expect, that They would rather not have any fingerprints or any kind of ownership claim to Eternal Blue when the story is usually told in the framing of, here's WannaCry, this horrible incident that just took down all kinds of shit on the internet and cost people all kinds of money.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
And it was enabled by this vulnerability courtesy of the NSA and the shadow brokers.
Juan Andres Guerrero-SaadeHOST
Right.
speaker_3HOST
Oh, server message block.
speaker_3HOST
That was the protocol exploited by EternalBlue, which fueled the massive WannaCry ransomware attack.
speaker_4HOST
You got it.
speaker_4HOST
But EternalBlue didn't exploit clear text.
Greg OttoHOST
Matt has been in this space for a while.
Greg OttoHOST
I know that he's done work on some other big events over the past decade, WannaCry, NotPetya, VPN Filter.
Greg OttoHOST
So brought him aboard to talk about what it's been like this week.
Greg OttoHOST
Matt, thanks for taking some time out of what has undoubtedly been a busy week to talk to us about what has been going on.
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Matt OlneyGUEST
I know they've been getting a lot of assistance from OpenAI and Wiz and Calif.
Matt OlneyGUEST
I just hope they get some rest and that their part of the work is done and now it's on to the defenders to do the work of patching.
Greg OttoHOST
So what do you think about the reaction overall to this and the lead up to it? Because I do think that while this is a big tentpole event in the cybersecurity industry, I think back to stuff like WannaCry and NotPetya, where it was like something occurred and then everybody was sort of reacting to this, where it seems like with this one, the alarm bells went off and everybody really seemed to be...
Greg OttoHOST
I don't know if out in front is the right term, but there seemed to be an early warning that hasn't happened in past situations, at least from my perspective.
Ciaran MartinGUEST
What a horrific way to start the day.
Ciaran MartinGUEST
For me, I think the obvious choice is the WannaCry incident of 2017.
Ciaran MartinGUEST
So that is coming up for its 10th anniversary because it happened so early.
Ciaran MartinGUEST
So the NCSE came into legal being in October 2016, but only moved fully into this building a few weeks before this happened in mid-May.
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