"WannaCry pandemic" to "data breach" to "GDPR violation"    Scenario : ransomware seeks vulnerability in older or phased-out ...

It seeks to attack older or phased-out technology, when you care the least

 

Scenario : ransomware seeks vulnerability in older or phased-out technology 

 

Virus Variance: WannaCrypt, WannaCry, WanaCrypt0r, WCrypt or WCRY. 

 

Symptoms: on infected systems, files are encrypted with the .wnry, .wcry, .wncry, and .wncryt 

 

Behavior : "Backdooring" happens that spread and make recovery harder

 

Resources: The WannaCrypt0r Factsheet: https://gist.github.com/rain-1/989428fa5504f378b993ee6efbc0b168 (will you click on this URL?) 

 

 

Consequence and Penalty

 

Data Breach, unavoidable Data Protection concern under GDPR  : failure to move on from an operating system that is no longer vendor-supported, under the GDPR this incident would trigger fines of up to 4% of revenue for every one of the breached parties

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Reach out to iTGRC Asia Practitioners Advisory Group

email : info@itgrc.asia

phone: +65 68180839

 

 

 

 

It's perfectly safe to click on https://gist.github.com/rain-1/989428fa5504f378b993ee6efbc0b168