Reply to post: Re: Social engineering?

74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

rik-shaw

Re: Social engineering?

Yes but..... a single careless person in a large networked environment then triggers the malware which will spread like fire over any connected device. That is the key "nasty" in this case.... it isn't isolated only to the machine that triggers it.

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