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In case your computer has been infected via WannaCry – the ransomware that wreaked havoc internationally last Friday – you might be fortunate to get your locked files returned without paying the ransom of $300 to the cyber criminals. Adrien Guinet, a French protection researcher from Quarkslab, has observed a manner to retrieve the secret […]
We have found evidence of much more sophisticated actors leveraging the NSA ETERNALBLUE exploit to infect, install backdoors and exfiltrate user credentials in networks around the world, including the US, three weeks prior to the WannaCry attack. These attacks might pose a much bigger risk than WannaCry. Even if companies were able to block WannaCry […]
It’s more than a week since WannaCry ransomware started causing panic among the internet community. However, as time passes, more and more security researchers across the world are coming up with fixes for the WannaCry ransomware. Earlier, it was a researcher who accidentally created a kill switch for the ransomware. Now, another researcher named Adrien Guinet […]
Short Bytes: Proofpoint has uncovered a malware attack that uses the same EternalBlue and DoublePulsar exploits, which were used to spread WannaCry. Called Adylkuzz, it’s a cryptocurrency miner that installs itself on a computer and uses your computer’s resources to mine Monero. It’s being claimed that Monero has infected hundreds of thousands of PCs and servers worldwide. Just […]
Short Bytes: Notorious WannaCry Ransomware has hit the computers at Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Coincidently, the same computers were blessed by Patriarch Kirill, Russia’s top religious official, in 2013. However, those old pictures are being circulated with fake stories like “Russian fighting WannaCry with holy water.” First and foremost, let me tell you that the […]
Short Bytes: Shadow Brokers were the first to reveal the vulnerabilities that led to the release of the WannaCry virus and it looks like they are back with a bang. They are launching a subscription-based model where people will be sold zero-day exploits and hacking tools, at least to those who have opted to become […]
Marcus Hutchins has been credited with preventing the WannaCry ransomware malware assault from spreading across the globe with the aid of by accident triggering a “kill transfer”. The self-taught 22 years old took only some hours of time to forestall the breach, which had already unfold to greater than 200,000 sufferers – including the NHS […]
Short Bytes: The WannaCry ransomware delivered some devastating results when it struck 99 countries and disrupted health care organizations in the blink of an eye. Ransomware should never be trifled with because it can potentially lock you out of your computer, meaning important and sensitive data can be compromised. Here, we explain the nature of […]
Short Bytes: Security researcher from MalwareTech was able to halt the viral WanaCrypt0r ransomware while studying about the same. He registered an unregistered URL in the payload, and it turned out to be a kill switch to spread the malware. The URL might have been a command and control server or an intentional kill switch. Notably, WanaCrypt0r ransomware […]
It was a hard Friday for many organizations all over the world, a new ransomware attack called ‘WannaCry’ (also known as WCry, WanaCrypt and WanaCrypt0r) is encrypting files and changing the extensions to .wnry, .wcry, .wncry and .wncrypt. that started its attack against hospitals across the UK before spreading across the globe. The Wana Decrypt0r […]