Over 12,000 WannaCry Variants Detected in the Wild

Security researchers have determined that over 12,000 variants of the WannaCry ransomware family are preying upon users in the wild. Sophos attributed this rise of variants to threat actors taking the original 2017 WannaCry binary and modifying it to suit their needs. These versions have subsequently produced numerous infection attempts. In August 2019, for instance, […]…

Source : https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/over-12000-wannacry-variants-detected-in-the-wild/

Date : September 19, 2019 at 01:29PM

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