Monday, 15 May 2017

Registering a Domain Accidentally Triggered Ransomware’s Kill Switch

Kill switch

As bad as WannaCry was, it could have been much worse if not for a security writer and researcher stumbling upon its kill switch. All he had to do in order to neuter WannaCry was register a domain.

The post Registering a Domain Accidentally Triggered Ransomware’s Kill Switch appeared first on ExtremeTech.



from ExtremeTechExtremeTech https://www.extremetech.com/internet/249346-registering-domain-accidentally-triggered-ransomwares-kill-switch

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