WannaCry made the headlines with the massive Ransomware attack that hit systems worldwide. Experts believe that threat actors in the wild could improve the threat. Security researcher and malware analyst, Luciano Martins is warning of the presence of a new variant of the dreaded ransomware that has no Kill-Switch in its code. The malware targeted organizations across 99 countries worldwide, it leverages a Windows SMB exploit to compromise unpatched OS or computers running unsupported versions of Windows OS. CERT has released a script for temporarily mitigating the infection.”]
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