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| Over 98% of All WannaCry Victims Were Using Windows 7 |
| 2017-05-27 |
| And 100 percent of them were using the most insecure network disk sharing protocol on the planet, Server Mount Block Protocol AKA Common Internet File System (CIFS) Protocol [BLEEPINGCOMPUTER] Numbers released by Kaspersky Lab on Friday reveal that over 98% of all documented WannaCry infections were running versions of the Windows 7 operating system. Out of all Windows 7 users, the worst hit were users running Windows 7 64-bit edition, accounting for more than 60% of all infections. The second and third most targeted OS versions were Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows 10, respectively. So! XP wasn't to blame after all The statistics come to disprove popular belief that WannaCry hit mostly Windows XP machines. "The Windows XP count is insignificant," said Costin Raiu, director of Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab. To infect all these computers, the WannaCry ransomware used an SMB worm that spread on its own to new computers that ran vulnerable SMB services. That SMB worm was powered by an exploit named ETERNALBLUE. The exploit is part of a collection of hacking tools a group of hackers calling themselves The Shadow Brokers have stolen from the NSA and leaked online in April 2017. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 If O/S were treated the way cars are by the FTC and food by the FDA, some organizations wouldn't be in business. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-05-27 08:06 |