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Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language, one site wrote. Facebook shuts down down AI after it invents its own creepy. UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT The Register. Final update UK hospitals have effectively shut down and are turning away non emergency patients after ransomware ransacked its networks. Some 1. 6 NHS organizations across Blighty including several hospital trusts such as NHS Mid Essex CCG and East and North Hertfordshire have had their files scrambled by a variant of the Wanna. Crypt, aka Wana. Crypt aka Wcry, nasty. Users are told to cough up 3. Bitcoin to restore their documents. Doctors have been reduced to using pen and paper, and closing A E to non critical patients, amid the tech blackout. Ambulances have been redirected to other hospitals, and operations canceled. It is understood Wanna. Crypt, which is raiding companies and organizations across the planet today, is being spread by a worm that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows machines particularly MS1. SMB bug attacked by the leaked NSA tool, Eternal. Blue. The security hole has been patched for modern Windows versions, but not Windows. XP and the NHS is a massive user of the legacy operating system. A spokesperson for NHS Digital said Were aware that a number of trusts that have reported potential issues to the Care. CERT team. We believe it to be ransomware. East and North Hertfordshire NHS confirmed in a press statement Today, the trust has experienced a major IT problem, believed to be caused by a cyber attack. Immediately on discovery of the problem, the trust acted to protect its IT systems by shutting them down it also meant that the trusts telephone system is not able to accept incoming calls. The trust is postponing all non urgent activity for today and is asking people not to come to A E please ring NHS1. It said the trusts IT specialists were working to clean up the mess. Im led believe that there is a major attack underway on the NHS with systems down nationwide, one reader told us. My wife is a GP and their systems were just shut down and they were told it was because of a National hack of the computer health care system. Updated to add. Payments appear to be being made to the Bitcoin addresses given in the NHS ransomware attack which in turn confirms that the same strain of malware has infected Telefnica Spain, Gareth Corfield reports. There are at least two addresses visible in screenshots of the malware reported by British sources. One of those addresses, 1. Down Hole Shut In Tool' title='Down Hole Shut In Tool' />UMMngoj. Mvkp. Hijc. Rdf. JNXj. Lr. Ln, is visible in BBC tech editor Rory Cellan Jones tweet of a London GPs view of the malware This same address is seen on computer screens in Spain and other countries hit by the Wanna. Torrent Bbc Planet Earth. Crypt variant. A payment of 0. Bitcoin worth roughly 2. Blockchain tracker shows. It is not possible to say who paid this amount. The NHS attackers are asking for 3. Bitcoin in ransom payments. NHS Digital response. NHS Digital confirmed a number of organisations have reported they have suffered a ransomware attack which is affecting a number of different organisations. It said The investigation is at an early stage but we believe the malware variant is Wanna Decryptor. BC/a7e80a63-1aea-8764-e555-dd3ac38d9126.jpg' alt='Down Hole Shut In Tool' title='Down Hole Shut In Tool' />I dont want to be hostile, I dont want to be dismal, but I dont want to rot in an apathetic existence, either. Final update UK hospitals have effectively shut down and are turning away nonemergency patients after ransomware ransacked its networks. Some 16 NHS organizations. At this stage we do not have any evidence that patient data has been accessed. We will continue to work with affected organisations to confirm this. NHS Digital is working closely with the National Cyber Security Centre, the Department of Health and NHS England to support affected organisations and to recommend appropriate mitigations. This attack was not specifically targeted at the NHS and is affecting organisations from across a range of sectors. Our focus is on supporting organisations to manage the incident swiftly and decisively, but we will continue to communicate with NHS colleagues and will share more information as it becomes available. Now read our analysis of the Wanna. Crypt epidemic. Sponsored The Joy and Pain of Buying IT Have Your Say.