RANSOMEWARE HIT COMPUTER SYSTEMS

[Olévié Kouami]

Dear Enrique,

Please, do re-read this : "Something that many security researchers have
feared has indeed come true. Threat actors have integrated a critical
exploit taking advantage of a popular communication protocol used by
Windows systems, crippling thousands of computers worldwide with
ransomware."



2017-05-15 15:32 GMT+00:00 Enrique Chaparro <echaparro at vialibre.org.ar>:

> [[SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC FOR THE LIST]]
>
> Some quick notes:
> 1
> If you are interested in the worm mechanism spreading
> the infection, there's a good article here:
> https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2017/05/the-
> worm-that-spreads-wanacrypt0r/
>
> 2
> You may adopt FOSS for many good reasons, but security
> is not one of them. Unpatched vulnerabilities in critical
> FOSS pieces have lived for years. E.g., 'Dirty Cow'
> (CVE–2016–5195) was sitting unnoticed(?) for nine
> years; the bug causing CVE-2015-7547 glibc vulnerability
> was around for 8 years, etc.
>
> 3
> As ecosystems show, diversity is A Very Good Thing™.
> However, diversity in the critical Internet infrastructure
> is actually very poor. A critical exploit affecting Cisco core
> routers may bring the Internet to its knees... and there is
> nothing we can do in a highly concentrated, quasi-monopilistic
> market.
>
> Regards,
>
> Enrique
>



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