It was
reported on Friday evening that hackers hacked the computers of dozens of
hospitals in Britain through the ramnmaware. According to the latest report,
now 99 countries are in the grip of this cyber attack. Under this, about 75
thousand computers have been targeted. The name of this ranger, which is
targeting the UK's National Health Service, is named WanaCrypt0r 2.0.
Randomware
is a method of malware that encrypts data by remotely locking the computer.
Hackers ask for money to decrypt it and unlock the computer. Cyber Security
Experts believe that hackers have adopted methods which were developed by the
National Security Agency, which has been leaked recently. This malicious
malware is being sent to target computer via email. Not only this, hackers are
also making computer targets through compressed and encrypted files.
Due to this
cyber attack, American multinational courier delivery service FedEx computers
have also been damaged. According to the company, it is facing the same cyber
attack, as is happening in hospitals in Britain. The impact of this attack is
more visible in Russia. According to some reports, Russia's Home Ministry has
acknowledged that cyber attacks have also happened there.
At the same time,
Spain's biggest telecommunications company Telephony Telecom and telecom giant
Telepho are also in the cyber attack, whose computers have also been hacked
through Ranjmware. Britain and Spain in those countries who have first
officially considered this cyber attack. According to the news agency Reuters,
many companies other than Telefonica are in the grip of dangerous software.
Windows XP is being Targeted
It is
important to know that this cyber attack is happening in Windows computers and
especially those of which have XP. According to the news, most of the British
hospitals in the hospitals are being hacked, mostly on Windows XP. Microsoft
has already stopped supporting this operating system, so using it is not less
than a challenge.
Cyber
Security Experts and Ethical Hackers believe that this is a start, because
this time hackers have made weapons to the NSA's leaked tool, which NSA made
for hacking. Recently, WikiLeaks leaked this hacking tool and taking advantage
of these hackers are doing this.
It is worth
mentioning that a group called NSA's hacking tool Shadow Brokers claimed to
leak. He leaked this hacking tool of NSA and told the people to himself.
Although Microsoft gave a patched update to fix this problem in March, hackers
still seem to be able to crack it.
What did Edward Snowden say?
Whistle
Blower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden said after the cyber attack
that all this happened due to the National Security Agency. He said that for
this, he had already begun. Snowden said that if the NSA knew about this
weakness of Windows XP, then why not the agency told Microsoft about it? If NSA
does this, then perhaps there is not much big cyber attack today. Apart from
this, he has also said that in spite of many warnings, the NSA created such a
dangerous tool, due to which this is happening.
Most offices
in India have Windows XP usage, whether ATMs or Private / Government Offices.
In India, Windows XP is used quite a lot. Therefore, the government should
remove this old operating system and bring it fresh, because as it is
increasingly running the cyber attack, it seems that soon it will spread to
Asian countries too. Especially in India where websites are littered in cyber
security.
Do this
yourself safe from this cyber attack
In March,
Microsoft updated a security patches for Windows users. If you have not
installed it then it's time to install it. You can install it on the aid and advice of your hardware engineer, by clicking on the relevant link.
----Sonal
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