Tag: smb
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Worms wiggling inside your networks are a lot harder to stop
Damaging though they were, the recent WannaCry and (Not)Petya outbreaks taught security practitioners many valuable lessons. Unfortunately, they taught important lessons to malware authors too. What contributed to the damage in both cases was the malware’s ability to spread internally using a number of methods, most prominently (though in (Not)Petya’s case not exclusively), a vulnerability…
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Worms wiggling inside your networks are a lot harder to stop
Damaging though they were, the recent WannaCry and (Not)Petya outbreaks taught security practitioners many valuable lessons. Unfortunately, they taught important lessons to malware authors too. What contributed to the damage in both cases was the malware’s ability to spread internally using a number of methods, most prominently (though in (Not)Petya’s case not exclusively), a vulnerability…