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Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF

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Re: Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF

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I've always been curious about the type of embedded OS that ATMs and ticket kiosks use. Most of the time, it seems to be an unpatched version of Windows. Does anyone know what the SFMTA runs on their kiosks?

It looked to me like the kiosks themselves are OK but the PCs they communicate with got hacked.

Making life worse through technology, welcome to the future!

Re: Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF

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Message is: “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key(cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681 ,Enter.”

From the text, it is pretty clear he wants people to think he's from Russia. From this I conclude two things:

1. He's not Russian.

2. This a good hacker but an amateur at OPSEC.

Re: Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF

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I've always been curious about the type of embedded OS that ATMs and ticket kiosks use. Most of the time, it seems to be an unpatched version of Windows. Does anyone know what the SFMTA runs on their kiosks?

Not sure about SFMTA but I know BART at Fremont is running Windows9x for its pay machines. Once I clicked the "add fare" button too fast and somehow dropped to desktop.
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