19 May
2021
19 May
'21
7:01 p.m.
On Wed, 19 May 2021, at 4:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Further report <https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/19/new_zealand_hospitals_taken_down/> says “The attack disabled all IT services except email”.
Kind of ironic, since that appears to have been the channel of attack
The MX records would suggest the e-mail is hosted by SMX ( https://smxemail.com/ ) a well known e-mail hosting company based in NZ. They also do hosting for all @xtra.co.nz (Spark Internet) addresses ( https://smxemail.com/our-company/blogs-news/press-releases/spark-brings-emai... ). As for the cause of the DHB issues, I suspect the it-came-from-e-mail answer is pure speculation at this stage. -- Simon