Questions tagged [wannacry]
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Does Wannacry spread outside its private subnet to adjacent private subnets?
Does a Wannacry-infected computer on an internal network with a private IP address attempt to spread to other privately-addressed subnets?
I have not found a definitive answer online.
Cisco says:
The first thread checks the IP address of the…
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Why was the NX bit unable to stop WannaCry?
I'm working on a presentation to give to high school computer science students where I work at as a volunteer. Part of the presentation is on local and network exploits. I am planning to talk about a story where years ago I was able to get root…
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Is WannaCry Proxy Aware?
I read the Article of WannaCry on malwaretech.com and as far I understand it works like this:
Try to connect via HTTP to www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
if it got an response then exit.
if not, do the next part (encryption…
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Can a WannaCry infection via zero day vector be blocked by an antivirus?
We know that an AV would be able to stop a WannaCry executable that can be found in an attack email/file just before double-clicking.
However would an anti-virus be able to block against a WannaCry infection coming through the smbv1 zero day…
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Does the WannaCry Ransomware affect VMs which are connected in Network?
I have a lot of Windows VMs, viz XP, Server 2003, Vista and 7. All of them are in Network and connected to Internet. Will they be affected by WannaCry if not patched ?
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WannaCry attack
The kill switch discovered by marcus hutchins the web security researcher, how did that kill switch actually work? ,domain name registration must have been done on the system of researcher , how did it prevent it's beacon to every other computer…
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