One Click May Costly Full Details About This Virus
Attacks 2450 in india
3000+ WannaCry ransomware attacks are detected out which around 2450 are from India.
Quick Heal has successfully defended these cases of attacks from compromise and data encryption.
Wanna Cry, researchers say, uses an exploit first developed by the United States National Security Agency. The exploit called EternalBlue was first made public last month after a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers released data and hacking tools purportedly belonging to the NSA.
Former NSA contractor and ardent cyber security expert Edward Snowden said, "Despite warnings, (NSA) built dangerous attack tools that could target Western software," Snowden said. "Today we see the cost".
Over 200,000 systems around the world were affected in the Wanna Cry attack, a tracker developed by a security researcher called 'MalwareTech' showed. Czech Republic-based anti-virus provider Avast, however, gave a more conservative estimate of around 126,000 systems being affected, news agency Reuters reported.
Wanna Cry, researchers say, uses an exploit first developed by the United States National Security Agency. The exploit called EternalBlue was first made public last month after a group of hackers called Shadow Brokers released data and hacking tools purportedly belonging to the NSA.
Former NSA contractor and ardent cyber security expert Edward Snowden said, "Despite warnings, (NSA) built dangerous attack tools that could target Western software," Snowden said. "Today we see the cost".
Over 200,000 systems around the world were affected in the Wanna Cry attack, a tracker developed by a security researcher called 'MalwareTech' showed. Czech Republic-based anti-virus provider Avast, however, gave a more conservative estimate of around 126,000 systems being affected, news agency Reuters reported.
How A WannaCry Ransomware works?
Attack is carried when systems are connected to network SMB services.
These services are attacked and exploited by “EternalBlue” exploit, planting WannaCry Ransomware causing the file encryption after successful execution.
When files are encrypted, it appends “.WNCRY” extension to all encrypted files.
Path of virus home
C:\ProgramData\<random_alphanumeric>\@WanaDecryptor@.exe
C:\ProgramData\<random_alphanumeric>\tasksche.exe
C:\ProgramData\<random_alphanumeric>\taskdl.exe
C:\ProgramData\<random_alphanumeric>\taskse.exe
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[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run]“xwjfzbtm432″=”\”
C:\\ProgramData\\<random_alphanumeric>\\tasksche.exe\“”
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