WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak Isn't Over Yet

[Paul Wagenseil]

The WannaCry ransomware attack hit China especially hard Monday, and experts warned that new strains were about to appear.

WannaCry Ransomware Outbreak Isn't Over Yet : Read more

 

[Avast-Team]

You're right -- on Friday, at the time of our threat team's initial post, we had seen about ~50,000 detections.

https/blog.avast.com/ransomware-that-infected-telefonica-and-nhs-hospitals-is-spreading-aggressively-with-over-50000-attacks-so-far-today

As of today, we're up to 213,000 detections across 112 countries.

 

[buotu1]

wait..... does it mean those using windows 10 are safe?

 

[Paul Wagenseil]

wait..... does it mean those using windows 10 are safe?

Windows 10 machines are vulnerable to WannaCry if they have not installed the March, April or May Windows Update packages from Microsoft. This story has video of a Windows 10 virtual machine being infected by WannaCry: http/www.tomsguide.com/us/wannacry-infection-video,news-25094.html