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  • WannaCry hits Honda car plant in Japan

    Posted on June 21, 2017 at 04:31 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    A vulnerable machine WILL get infected. Only, if the block is accessible, the worm will exit immediately after infecting it…. and, according to Reuters, they shut the plant down.

    The automaker shut production on Monday at its Sayama plant, northwest of Tokyo… Production at other plants operated by the automaker had not been affected, and regular operations had resumed at the Sayama plant on Tuesday, she said.

    The story doesn’t sound right. Anybody know what really happened?

    Interesting. Vess Bontchev just tweeted an explanation:

    They probably just discovered the infection. They were not encrypted, because of the block. The block doesn’t prevent infection… A vulnerable machine WILL get infected. Only, if the block is accessible, the worm will exit immediately after infecting it… A vulnerable machine WILL get infected. Only, if the block is accessible, the worm will exit immediately after infecting it… they were running vulnerable, unpatched. They probably got infected repeatedly during the month. Just nobody noticed until now, because the encryption didn’t trigger, due to the block. A more interesting question is how did they discover the problem? The DoublePulsar backdoor remains, not sure if AV detects it.

    There’s another good discussion kicked off by Mikko Hypponen here.

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