Ensure you have the tools to perform incident response.Block unnecessary ports and implement host-based firewalls.Don’t open suspicious emails or attachments.Conduct least privilege and protect administrative provileges.Establish robust backups and recovery procedures.Vendors and security professionals are helping out with patches, signatures, detection tools, removal tools, damage assessment and recommendations. The bigger lesson remains that we need to reinforce proper security focus and measures such as: Many affected individuals and organisations had no proper backups to recover from the ransomware.Īt this point many affected entities are in the clean-up phase of the “WannaCry” story. Reports started talking about the malware hitting machines as old as Windows XP and Windows 2003! Once infected other problems started to appear.
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In this particular case, the foremost reason for the success of “WannaCry” was because many didn’t upgrade or patch things. A researcher worked out what was going on and simply registered the domain name and activated the kill switch! If the malware could establish communication with the mentioned domain, it would stop but because the domain wasn’t registered, it continued to execute. The domain – a “randomly” human-typed address primarily consists of keys in the top row of the keyboard, was observed in the malware code as a kill switch.
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If successful it then used the DOUBLEPULSAR backdoor to install the ransomware. The WannaCry malware appeared to primarily use the ETERNALBLUE modules for the initial exploitation of the SMB vulnerability addressed as part of Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010. Once the malware has a foothold on a system it used different techniques to persist on that host. The malware has the ability to spread to other system by scanning a attacking the Server Message Block/SMB protocol resulting in a worm behavior.
The responsible for this attack was reported to be a ransomware variant known as ‘WannaCry’. The last few days many of us witnessed how a major ransomware attack affected many organizations across the world. Telefonica in Spain, theNational Health Service in the UK, and FedEx in the US are some tom mentions among many many more. Six months ago I had a talk with Fabio Viggiani about the development of ransomware and we made an educated guess about the next big type of ransomware attack to be CRYPTOWORMS!
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