Saturday, May 13, 2017

WannaCrypt ransomware worm

Yesterday (May 11th), it has been a serious number of countries with clients affected by the WannaCrypt ransomware.

Few months ago Microsoft issues a Security Bullentin on how to disable SMB1 - https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx, and this attack is speciffically aimed towards old and unpatches systems like Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (or earlier OS) systems, so Windows 10 PCs are not affected by this attack. It goes wven further and majority of affected systems are Windows XP and.or Windows 2003.

There for, Microsoft issued guiadence as wel las  set of patches for all affected systems.

More information regarding the WannaCrypt, can be found on the follwing page - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/05/12/wannacrypt-ransomware-worm-targets-out-of-date-systems/.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Macedonian ITPro User Group Meeting (February 2021)

For this months meeting, as planned with  with   Gorana ,  Vlatko  and  Vladimir ,  I did a session titled "Microsoft Azure Security Pr...