Thursday 25 May 2017

TIFU By Destroying The Infrastructure of My Entire School District

TIFU. BAD. Well it was yesterday, but I'm not seeing the full impact until today.

DAY 1: I was just playing around with the school computers as usual, messing with files, giving my friends admin, all that stuff. Suddenly, I had the fucking hilarious idea to throw wanna cry on to one of my dozen or so admin accounts, and see what happens. I google, "Wanna Cry Download" and for a solid 15 minutes, I find nothing. It turns out that Google is really good at preventing people from intentionally downloading viruses. Then I bing, "WannaCry Download".

The first result is exactly what I'm looking for. Just a link to a mega page with wanna cry in a rar file. I unzip the folder and voila! Wanna Decrypt is sitting in front of my eyes.

Nonchalantly, I open the file. Immediately, the school's antivirus starts deleting it and it can't even do anything because of the new up- nope. None of that happens. Our anti virus is from 2004 and we're running an old version of Windows 7. (We still have gadgets). Immediately the virus goes crazy. Eating up all of the local files. However, what I forgot, is that the school's servers for storing files, are all shared by every single school in the district. Yes, that's right, all 3 elementary schools, the middle School, and the high school, all use the same servers.

DAY 2: Everything is fucked up in the high school. I email the principals of every single school, giving a warning not to let any kids or teachers log onto any of their computers. I have received no response yet. I've contacted the technology department, telling them about the issue. Their response was, "Have you tried turning it on and back off again?" Facepalm I was called to the principals office, and thanked for warning the teachers not to use their computers. When they asked me how I got the virus and whether I clicked on anything, I responded, "Uhh, well the virus most likely originated from another computer, as it can spread easily through the network, I just happened to be one of the first infected"

The school is buying it for now, and none of the other schools (to my knowledge) have been infected​. In the emails I sent, I told the principals that simply updating Windows would fix the problem. I'm scared.

EDIT 1: it's still day 1, the elementary school that I went to as a kid has updated all of their computers. Thank god.

EDIT 2: Both other elementary schools and the middle School have been infected and fucked up. My elementary school is the only survivor.

EDIT 3: The principal of the elementary school that I went to declared me a hero.

EDIT 4: I just remembered that today is my 16th birthday. Happy birthday to me, I guess.

EDIT 5: I'M SUSPENDED FOR 2 DAYS

TLDR: Stupid Kid infects school computer with ransomware, ransomware proceeds to infect ((edit) almost) entire School district. (4 schools)

I'll keep everyone updated if anything else happens couldn't put virus or anything in the title or it would get auto-removed



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