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US warns of a more malicious malware dangerous than WannaCry

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US warns of a more malicious melaware dangerous than WannaCry

The US government has alerted against potential cyber attacks with two pieces of malware that are likely more dangerous than WannaCry.

Wannacry or WannaCryptor 2.0, the ransomware used for a global cyber attack on May 12, affected over 2,00,000 computer systems in at least 150 nations. The attackers raked in over $1 million in the digital currency Bitcoin from their victims.

Read also: Report reveals those behind WannaCry ransomeware

The new threats have been identified as Adylkuzz and EternalRocks. While Adylkuzz uses two exploits like WannaCry, ExternalRocks leverages all seven exploits stolen from the United States National Security Agency and dumped online by the Shadow Brokers hacker group.

An exploit is a piece of software, sequence of commands, or data that uses some vulnerability, generally in the operating system’s code, to damage or take control of computer software, hardware and even entire networks.

 

 

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