A cyber attack “virus-the extortioner” has been suspended

The spread of the virus WannaCrypt, who managed to “infect” millions of computers around the world, managed to accidentally pause.

The spread of the virus have been suspended after registering a meaningless domain name iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.

Security specialist, who leads Twitter @MalwareTechBlog, found that the virus accesses that domain and decided to register it to monitor program activity.

As it turned out, in the code of the virus it was noted that if this domain is successful, the infection should cease; if not, continue.

Immediately after the domain registration came to him tens of thousands of queries.

Sam @MalwareTechBlog admitted that when he registered the domain didn’t know that it will help to stop the spread of a dangerous virus.

However, to re-start the infection, attackers need to modify a few lines of code, which refers to domain iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.

We will remind, on may 12, computers worldwide began to attack virus-вымогательWannaCrypt, which blocks access to data, and to unlock it – you have to pay the ransom. Ukraine also was among the victims of the virus.

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