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Kaspersky discovered clones
The Wannacry virus-Militter appeared, clones appeared, they write Vedomosti with reference to the Kaspersky Laboratory.
At the same time, according to Kaspersky, on May 15, the activity of the virus decreased six times compared to the attacks of May 12. The first clone was specified in the Laboratory, began to spread in the early morning of May 14. Experts found that three users became victims of modifications - in Russia and in Brazil.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation said that the virus did not affect the Russian financial system. The Russian Railways reported a virus blocking in its IT system and the completion of work on its destruction.
Earlier, another modification was already reported , which learned to bypass the restrictions that stopped the first wave of infection.
Bloomberg reports also about variations of the virus. As the agency adds, according to the latest Europol data, the server that collects Wannacry's appeals, registered 200 thousand notifications of infection.
We are talking about 150 countries and 10 thousand computers. According to the latest data, the virus “collected” $ 50 thousand from users, adds Bloomberg.
Earlier, experts warned of the second wave of attacks on May 15, when the working week will begin, including in China. As Reuters reports, in the PRC the scale of the spread of the virus was smaller than expected.
Nevertheless, Wannacry attacked government institutions, schools, as well as automobile plants. The authorities, writers, reported that they had to turn off their servers because of attacks.
The large -scale attack by Wannacry began on May 12, computers were infected through the Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17–010 network vulnerability. A set of scripts was installed in the system through which the virus was launched. To access their files, users were invited to pay $ 300 in bitcoins.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has held responsibility for the spread of the US National Security Safety virus. According to Microsoft, it was from the NSA computers that data on the vulnerability of the system were stolen.