When foreign network experts were at a loss what to do, the same worm virus also spread to China through the Internet.
In a certain university, in the boys' dormitory, student Xie Zhuo turned on his computer and prepared to continue writing his graduate thesis.
This is a thesis that he spent a lot of effort to write. Whether he can graduate successfully depends on this thesis. But when he logged into the school campus network to check information, he suddenly found that the thesis on his hard drive could not be opened?
"Brothers, what's going on? Why is my hard drive locked?" Xie Zhuo asked his roommate.
"You must have pressed something wrong." The roommate said unconcernedly.
"No? I haven't set a password!" Xie Zhuo was puzzled. At this time, a prompt box popped up on the computer. It was the hacker's ransom letter, and the other party also specially included it in Chinese and English.
"If you want your files, please pay three hundred dollars worth of Bitcoins. Otherwise, the price will double in three days and be destroyed in a week?" Xie Zhuo's eyes widened and he shouted, "xx, my computer is infected!"
"What's going on?" The roommates all poked their heads over.
"Don't panic!" said a roommate, "try killing the virus first."
Xie Zhuo opened the 3600 Security Manager he installed and turned on the anti-virus, but it was of no use. His files were still encrypted.
"Change the anti-virus software. I use Penguin, and it has always been fine." said the roommate.
"Are you sure there's no problem?" Xie Zhuo pointed to his computer, where a hacker's "friendly prompt box" also popped up.
"Mine is also poisoned?" The roommate was confused, and then yelled, "Who is this wicked person? There are so many treasures in my hard disk that you can't open them?"
"What should I do?" Xie Zhuo was extremely anxious, "My thesis is very important!"
"How about paying?" someone suggested.
"Three hundred US dollars, this is worth more than two thousand yuan!" Xie Zhuo said helplessly, "How can I have so much money, and why should I spend money on my own documents?"
"Isn't there a computer guru in the dormitory next door? Invite him to come and take a look!" the roommate suggested. There is a computer guru in the dormitory next door. He has also won a national computer programming award. They usually ask the guru for help when they have questions.
Soon, they invited the great god. The great god just took one look and said, "There's nothing I can do about it."
"Why? Boss, you can't kill this virus?" Xie Zhuo asked.
The master shook his head and said: "This is not an ordinary virus, it is a ransomware virus that has just appeared. Now it has swept across the world. Current anti-virus software can't do anything about it."
"But I didn't download anything?" Xie Zhuo said depressedly, "Why am I infected with a virus?"
"You must have logged into the campus Internet cafe?" the master said, "This ransomware virus mainly exploits the vulnerabilities of the old version of the Windows system to invade. The school's computer room computers reproduced the old version of the system, causing the campus network to be invaded by the virus."
"It's not just you. Every computer in our school that logs into the campus network is infected with the virus, and it's still spreading."
"A notice has been sent to the group, and it is indeed like this!" One person said with a mobile phone. In the professional group, someone forwarded the announcement just issued by the school: "Dear students, urgent notice! There is a ransomware virus infection in our school.
The virus will encrypt your disk files and demand ransom. Now our school has called the police... Once again, remind all students that using genuine systems can avoid virus infection. For uninfected computers, please close the network port as soon as possible and back up your important files! Do not turn on the computer
Students, please be sure to unplug the network cable and then turn on the computer!"
"The network cable came out even after unplugging it! It seems there is really no way this time!" Xie Zhuo sighed and wailed: "My poor thesis, no way, I must find a way to decrypt my files!"
Xie Zhuo's university is just one of many institutions in China infected with ransomware. In addition to them, some government agencies, enterprises and other places with old computer systems have also been infected with ransomware.
Police in various places have received similar reports.
Even the National Internet Emergency Center issued an emergency notice: "Attention to all units: There are ransomware attack cases targeting the Windows operating system on the Internet. The ransomware exploits the previously disclosed Windows SB service vulnerability (corresponding to Microsoft Vulnerability Announcement: S17-010)
The attack method is to penetrate and spread to end users and extort Bitcoin or other valuables from users."
As soon as this announcement was issued, the ransomware virus immediately became a hot topic on the Internet and became the headlines at the time.
Hot discussion on Weibo: #Ransomware#, and a large number of netizens said they had been infected.
ck kitten: "Our school has been recruited! All the computers in the computer room are paralyzed!"
Barbeque Master No. 13: "What kind of virus is so powerful?"
You're good but you're not: "Our company's website was hacked, and the hacker actually asked us to extort five Bitcoins!"
Lingdang: "@3600Security Center@Penguin Security Center@xinshandrug tyrants, haven't the big guys updated the anti-virus function? I don't even dare to turn on my phone!"
15484: "Please give me a security software! My computer is down and there is very important information in it! Please message me privately, thank you!"
Netizens are anxious, and these network security companies are also anxious.
Penguin Information Security Center started research and prevention as soon as the ransomware broke out abroad.
"The ransomware broke out so fast that it has affected more than 90 countries and regions so far." A security technician from the Penguin Information Security Center reported the situation, "The impact it has caused has even exceeded that of the Panda Burning Incense.
event!"
"What exactly caused it?" Tong Chenfeng, the person in charge of the Penguin Confidence and Safety Center asked.
"According to existing information, these ransomware viruses mainly come from the network attack tool Eternal Blue! released by the hacker organization Shadow Brokers a few days ago!" the technician said.
"This is a virus created by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows system view. There are now many variants. The most widely spread ransomware families are onion and wncry. The disk files of the victim machine will be tampered with accordingly.
suffix, all kinds of data cannot be opened normally."
"A ransom must be paid, and the amount of the ransom is variable. Generally speaking, the ransom for personal computers is relatively low, only three hundred dollars, but for computers in corporate units, the ransom may be as high as thousands or tens of thousands of dollars!"
"These people are very courageous!" Tong Chenfeng snorted coldly, "How long will it take to crack this virus?"
The technician was a little embarrassed and said: "It's hard to say when, because if you want to eliminate it, you must improve the loopholes in the windowsw system. Now many foreign companies and institutions have begun to crack it, including Microsoft itself, but no one has announced that it has been able to eliminate the ransomware virus.
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"No matter what, we must be fast!" Tong Chenfeng warned, "This is not only our user demand, but also a key node in the competition for the market!"
The users of 3600 Company have always been above Penguin Security Manager. If Penguin can take the lead in launching tools to protect against ransomware this time, they will definitely win a good reputation and may surpass 3600 in one fell swoop.
Like them, 3600 Company also urgently summoned information security technicians to study the ransomware virus and race against time. As long as they solve the problem one second earlier than other companies, they can make a lot of money.