Thread: Updated: Large Global Scale Cyber-Attack
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Old 14-05-2017, 01:48   #42
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Re: Large Scale Cyber-Attack Hits 40 NHS Hospitals
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Originally Posted by pip08456 View Post
I doubt it as it operates via a type of backdoor. Once activated it looks for any other machine vulnerable on the network and infects them. That machine then does the same so the rate of infection is expotential, thats how it's been so successful in such a short time.

All because a 2 month old security patch wasn't installed by the relevant IT departments of the companies.
From what I read, it appears that it drops a file in the Windows directory, so while lockdowns may not prevent it using the exploit to spread, they might be able to stop the payload
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