looks like the world is being attacked by a very serious Ransomware virus.

so far UK, US, China, Russia, Spain and many more data's being hold to Ransom. its called WannaCry. and affects windows computers.

The infections seem to be deployed via a worm - a program that spreads by itself between computers.

Most other malicious programmes rely on humans to spread by tricking them into clicking on an attachment harbouring the attack code.

By contrast, once WannaCry is inside an organisation it will hunt down vulnerable machines and infect them too.

Some experts say the attack may have been built to exploit a weakness in Microsoft systems that had been identified by the NSA and given the name EternalBlue.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39901382

 

[Slattz]

Does anyone use MBAM premium or just the free version?

 

[Deleted User]

I don't need backups since i do basically nothing on my PC. Just play games.
If something breaks or gets infected, I have spare Linux Live CD so i can fix my shit.
MBAM = Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. It destroys everything, even AVs.

Well you can't really fix all your files being encrypted with a linux live CD, not that I know of.

 

[comput3rus3r]

Like I said before i have an old version of win 7 that works perfectly with everything turned off. Just use restore points when installing things you're not sure about.

 

[Deleted User]

Well you can't really fix all your files being encrypted with a linux live CD, not that I know of.

I never managed to get myself encrypted in first place.
But i only have restore points for my VMs where i test everything, even malware packs so..

 

[comput3rus3r]

Anyways these stories are always the same some big virus is "reported" they tell everyone to update to be safe. I do nothing to my system that has 0 antivirus not even windows defender turned on and absolutely nothing happens.
They just want people to update for the same reason nintendo wants you to update, "stability" lol

 

[nxwing]

Literally spent hours installing the Creator's Update and thank god I did update. Update your stuff people.

Does anyone use MBAM premium or just the free version?

Free version with Windows Defender. Pretty nice combo

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Anyways these stories are always the same some big virus is "reported" they tell everyone to update to be safe. I do nothing to my system that has 0 antivirus not even windows defender turned on and absolutely nothing happens.
They just want people to update for the same reason nintendo wants you to update, "stability" lol

You may regret not updating and having your anti-virus disabled

 

[Deleted User]

Anyways these stories are always the same some big virus is "reported" they tell everyone to update to be safe. I do nothing to my system that has 0 antivirus not even windows defender turned on and absolutely nothing happens.
They just want people to update for the same reason nintendo wants you to update, "stability" lol

"It hasn't happened to me so it won't happen to anybody else"

Pretty stupid comment mate

 

[Deleted-355425]

Does anyone use MBAM premium or just the free version?

Premium.

 

[Joom]

dont use windows.

Glad I dumped it years ago. Also, this is piggybacking off of recently leaked RCE CVEs, so it doesn't matter if one opens a sketchy email or runs a random EXE they downloaded.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

 

[comput3rus3r]

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"It hasn't happened to me so it won't happen to anybody else"

Pretty stupid comment mate

except that the comment is yours as you're incorrectly paraphrasing what i said.
I'll paraphrase it for you properly.

"if you don't install things you're not sure about or when you do you make sure to use restore points then you will be fine."
mate.

 

[Joom]

except that the comment is yours as you're incorrectly paraphrasing what i said.
I'll paraphrase it for you properly.

"if you don't install things you're not sure about or when you do you make sure to use restore points then you will be fine."
mate.

Read my above comment. You don't have to download anything to be affected by this as it uses remote code execution 0days. Not properly patching your system is just incredibly ignorant.

 

[chrisrlink]

another reason to blame my government for creating the Malware that got leaked

 

[Yokimari]

In the U.K. it's because they're still using XP and can't afford that free win10 upgrade

Edit: The hospital my mom works at was affected and she saw it happening.


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That's funny, considering XP Machines were patched against the vulnerability. More likely they didn't feel like keeping the machines patched.

another reason to blame my government for creating the Malware that got leaked

Pretty much, this is a weaponized worm based off of the leaked NSA Hack tools.

 

[comput3rus3r]

Read my above comment. You don't have to download anything to be affected by this as it uses remote code execution 0days. Not properly patching your system is just incredibly ignorant.

yes i know, it's always some spooky story of this ingenious virus. I've heard it many times before.

 

[Yokimari]

Well you can't really fix all your files being encrypted with a linux live CD, not that I know of.

Yeah, it's pretty much a loss and the system would need to be reformatted.

 

[grossaffe]

yes i know, it's always some spooky story of this ingenious virus. I've heard it many times before.

Good thing you're too smart to be fooled by those security chicken-littles.

 

[Yokimari]

yes i know, it's always some spooky story of this ingenious virus. I've heard it many times before.

You do know it is actually happening right?

 

[comput3rus3r]

You do know it is actually happening right?

the sky is falling?

 

[Joom]

yes i know, it's always some spooky story of this ingenious virus. I've heard it many times before.

Except it's obviously not some overly exaggerated, "spooky" story. Whatever. Some people still believe that the world is flat, so you're not that surprising. Anyway, I have the exploits this uses if you want to check out their severity. Thanks US government.

 

[Yokimari]

the sky is falling?

Good thing you're too smart for it.