RANSOMWARE #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and this is

something that you never want to see so

you probably heard of ransomware it is

absolutely everywhere right now and one

of the biggest attacks was actually on a

hospital system in the UK where hundreds

of computers were not only made

basically useless but more importantly

there were tons of documents on patients

information test results and they were

all essentially lost this is not an

isolated incident it is happening

worldwide and not only is it affecting

normal people's computers but it's also

attacking things like banks and gas

stations pretty much anything that they

can get its hands on but what is

ransomware so this actually isn't a new

thing the viruses of course have been

around for pretty much as long as

computers have been but ransomware is a

slightly different take on it generally

malware isn't this malicious so sure if

you get a virus you might have pop ups

or your computer might be a part of a

botnet but what ransomware does is it

literally hold your files ransom until

you pay and even if you pay there's no

guarantee that you'll actually get any

of your information back once infected

the ransomware will start looking

through all of your files so we'll find

things like pictures video music

documents pretty much anything you can

get its hands on and start encrypting it

and once these files are encrypted and

it doesn't take long they're basically

totally useless to you unless you have

the key which they just so happen to

have and will offer to unlock for you

for a very reasonable fee generally

speaking once you have actually had your

files encrypted there's really nothing

you can do about it rinse and we were

like this has been around for a few

years now what's different is that

there's a new much more dangerous

version of it around want to cry

originally this was an exploit found by

the NSA called eternal blue where they

presumably used it for super secret spy

stuff however one of their servers was

actually leaked and lots of their tools

were available publicly including this

one where bad things started happening

paternal blue is an exploit in windows

networking that is especially dangerous

because you don't need to be doing

anything wrong to be affected so you

take that and you combine it with

ransomware and you have a very dangerous

combination the good news is that

Microsoft has already released a patch

to deal with this exploit but to show

you how big of a deal this is they even

released an emergency patch for Windows

XP which came out in 2001 if your

computer is fully up to date you are

safe from want to cry

but of course third loss and lots and

lots of computers that are not fully up

to date so some countries have huge

percentages of peace

running pirated Windows that might not

be getting updates there are plenty of

companies that can't just immediately

update 300,000 pcs with a new patch and

of course some people just don't get

around to updating their computer very

often to demonstrate what happens if you

are infecting over we're going to

purposely put want to cry on this

computer now the main thing I want to

see is first of all can you do anything

about it

spoiler alert no but also I just want to

see what the process is if you actually

aren't affected so I have a few files on

this computer right now so for example I

have a WordPad document I have an image

but keep in mind one a cry will go after

pretty much anything that it's on your

PC so you can imagine if this is my

personal computer with all of my

documents all my everything it will

pretty much attack whatever it can get

its hands on so what I'm going to be

doing is actually manually triggering

want to cry

generally if this is you and you were

infected in the wild you wouldn't really

have to do anything it would just show

up on your computer attack all your

files and you wouldn't even know

anything was going on in the background

but let's find out what happens when you

were attacked by wanna cry all right

let's give this a try oh wow yep that's

doing stuff at the mêlée doing stuff so

you see task manager heating up CPU

stuff is all over the desktop I see the

original files we also see the encrypted

versions interesting so if this happens

to you you immediately turn your

computer off but you can see it's

writing a ton of stuff to the disk right

now getting up a favorite of CPU and of

course your desktop is just littered

with all the crap oh it did it all right

what is it safe if you need your files

you have to run the decrypt software run

and follow the instructions

hmm do we want to do it well yes yes we

do let's see what happens

there we go what happened to my computer

your important files are encrypted many

of your documents photos videos and

databases are no longer accessible

because they've been encrypted I love it

can I recover my files sure we guarantee

that you recover all your files safely

and easily but you do not have enough

time so if I send them $300 worth of

Bitcoin it will call back to home and

say hey you did it

well decrypt all your files that's all

totally fine except who knows as they

actually want to do that that was quick

now of course there weren't a ton of

files on this computer but you can see

I've gotta try to open up maybe like the

file or anything it just brings it it's

like a dot win cry file ok so if I try

to open it up yeah it's all complete

garbage

so it's encrypted there's no way I'm

doing anything with that thankfully this

version of want to cry is mostly been

taken care of at this point but there's

always going to be another big exploit

that will come out of nowhere so please

keep your computers up-to-date keep your

phones tablets toasters whatever the

case is keep it up-to-date anyway let me

know what you guys think about wanna cry

and all this crazies in the comments

below and I will catch you in the next

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