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Last Updated : 2023-02-04 07:47:00
As ransomware ‘WannaCry’ and its variants continue their global ‘cyber-siege’ across multiple industries, Fortinet, a global leader in high-performance cyber security solutions strongly advises organisations in Sri Lanka to take immediate steps to protect against the highly virulent ransomware strain.
“Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs has been monitoring and analyzing threat telemetry gathered from over two million sensors around the world. WannaCry and its variants is a highly virulent ransomware strain which is capable of self-replicating.
This ransomware is being referred to by a number of names, including WCry, WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r, WannaCrypt and Wana Decrypt0r.It spreads through an alleged NSA exploit called Eternalblue that was leaked online in April 2017 by a hacker group known as the shadow brokers. Eternalblue exploits vulnerability in the Microsoft Server Message Block 1.0 (SMBv1) protocol,” said David Maciejak, Director of Security Research at Fortinet.
“WannaCryhas infiltrated thousands of organisations around the world, including many key institutions. This ransomware is especially notable for its multi-language ransom demands that support more than two-dozen languages,” added Maciejak. Fortinet’s tracking analysis shows that there has been an average of more than 4,000 ransomware attacks every day since January 1, 2016.
If an organization has been affected by ransomware, Fortinet strongly advise the following steps to be taken:
“Fortinet addresses organizations’cyber security challenges withan intelligent Security Fabric that spans the entire network, linking different security sensors and tools together to collect, coordinate, and respond to malicious behavior whenever it occurs,” said Maciejak.“Only by harnessing all their cyber defence resources in a coordinated way can firms effectively fight massive cyberattacks like WannaCry.”
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