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What Your Business Can Learn from WannaCry

The biggest cyber attack began last week, spreading to more than 150 countries and infecting 200,000 machines. The outbreak is a ransomware threat, WanaCrypt0r 2.0 also known as WannaCry, with worm-like capabilities leveraging an exploit against vulnerable Microsoft Windows® operating systems. Ransomware mimics the age-old crime of kidnapping: someone takes something...

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Breach Response: Mitigating an Outbreak

By Azeem Aleem, Gareth Pritchard and David Gray, RSA Advanced Cyber Defense It’s mid-2017 and the news is alight with yet another alarming cybersecurity attack. A new strain of a malware variant, which on first analysis looks very similar to a previously reported malware strain called “Petya” (ransomware armed with the EternalBlue exploit amongst other...

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