An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry's killswitch

Lanthade May 19, 2017, 6:58pm 5

I was thinking something similar. Competent IT departments have the tools to take care of this with DNS internally. That said, competent IT departments shouldn’t be vulnerable to this worm. Not now, not when it first dropped.

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An IoT botnet is trying to nuke Wcry's killswitch

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