Don't give me black technology

Chapter 125 Race against time
When foreign network experts were helpless, the same worm virus also spread to China through the network.

In a certain university, in the male dormitory, student Xie Zhuo turned on his computer, preparing to continue writing his graduate thesis.

This is a thesis that he wrote with a lot of painstaking efforts. Whether he can graduate smoothly depends on this thesis.But after he logged into the school campus network to check the information, he suddenly found that the thesis in his hard drive could not be opened?
"Brothers, what's going on? Why is my hard drive locked?" Xie Zhuo asked his roommate.

"You must have pressed something wrong." The roommate didn't care.

"No? I haven't set a password!" Xie Zhuo was puzzled. At this moment, a prompt box popped up on the computer.That is, the hacker's blackmail letter, and the other party specially attached it in both Chinese and English.

"If you want your files, please pay three hundred dollars worth of bitcoins. Otherwise, the price will double in three days, and it will be destroyed in a week?" Xie Zhuo widened his eyes and shouted, "XX, my computer is poisoned!"

"What's going on?" The roommates all poked their heads.

"Don't panic!" said a roommate, "Try anti-virus first."

Xie Zhuo opened the 3600 Security Manager he had installed and turned on the antivirus, but it was useless, his files were still encrypted.

"Change to another anti-virus software. I use Penguin's, and it has been fine." The roommate said.

"Are you sure there is no problem?" Xie Zhuo pointed to his computer, and a hacker's "friendship prompt box" also popped up on it.

"Is mine poisoned too?" The roommate was confused, and then cursed, "Who is wicked? There are so many treasures in my hard drive, and I can't open them?"

"What should I do?" Xie Zhuo was in a hurry, "My thesis is very important!"

"Do you want to pay?" Someone suggested.

"Three hundred dollars, it's worth more than 2000 yuan!" Xie Zhuo said helplessly, "How can I have so much money, and my own documents, why should I spend money?"

"Isn't there a computer guru in the dormitory next door? Please take a look!" the roommate suggested. There is a computer guru in the next dormitory, and he has won a national computer programming award. They usually ask the guru for help when they have problems.

Soon, they invited the Great God, and the Great God just took a look and said, "I can't do anything about it."

"Why? Boss, you can't kill this virus?" Xie Zhuo asked.

The master shook his head and said, "This is not an ordinary virus, it is a ransomware virus that just appeared, and it has now swept the world. The current anti-virus software can't do anything about it."

"But I didn't download anything?" Xie Zhuo said depressedly, "Why did I get infected with a virus?"

"You must have logged into the campus Internet cafe?" the master said, "This kind of ransomware mainly exploits the loopholes of the old version of WINDOWS system to intrude. The school's computer room computer reproduced the old version of the system, causing the campus network to be invaded by the virus."

"It's not just you, as long as our school logs in to the campus network, the computer is poisoned, and it's still spreading."

"A notice has been sent in the group, and it really is!" One person said with a mobile phone. In the professional group, someone forwarded the announcement just released by the school: "Dear students, urgent notice! There is a ransomware software infection in our school. The virus will encrypt your disk files and ask for a ransom. Now our school has called the police... Remind all students again that using a genuine system can avoid virus infection. For computers that are not infected, please close the network port as soon as possible and back up your important files! Do not open the computer Students, please be sure to unplug the network cable and then turn it on!"

"The network cable has come out! It seems that there is really no way this time!" Xie Zhuo sighed and wailed: "My poor paper, no, I must find a way to decrypt my files!"

Xie Zhuo's university is just one of many institutions in China infected with ransomware.In addition to them, some institutions, enterprises and other places with old computer systems have been infected with ransomware.

Police all over the country have received similar reports.

Even the National Internet Emergency Response Center urgently issued a notice: "All units, please pay attention: There are ransomware attacks against the dows operating system on the Internet. The ransomware uses the previously disclosed dows sb service vulnerability (corresponding to Microsoft's vulnerability announcement: s17-010) attack means, infiltrating and disseminating to end users, and extorting Bitcoin or other value from users.”

As soon as this announcement was made, the matter about the ransomware virus immediately appeared on the Internet hotspots and became the headlines of the news at the time.

Hot discussion on Weibo: #狗狗病病#, a large number of netizens said that they have been recruited.

CK Kitty: "Our school has been recruited! All the computers in the computer room are paralyzed!"

Grill Master No. 13: "What virus, so powerful?"

You can do it, but you can't: "Our unit's website was hacked, and the hacker actually asked us to extort five bitcoins!"

Bell: "@3600安全中心@广鹅安全中心@新山寿霸, haven't you guys updated the antivirus function yet? I don't even dare to turn it on!"

15484: "I want a security software! My computer is down, and there are very important data in it! Please chat with me privately, thank you!"

Netizens are in a hurry, and these network security companies are also in a hurry.

Penguin Information Security Center, as soon as the ransomware virus broke out abroad, they started research and prevention.

"The ransomware virus broke out too fast, and now it has affected more than 90 countries and regions." A security technician from the Penguin Information Security Center reported the situation. !"

"What caused it?" asked Tong Chenfeng, head of the Penguin Confidence and Security Center.

"According to the current information, these ransomware viruses mainly come from the network attack tool released by the hacker organization Shadow Brokers a few days ago - Eternal Blue!" the technician introduced.

"This is a virus made by exploiting a certain vulnerability in the WINDOWS system view. Now there are many variants. The most widely spread ransomware viruses are the two families of onion and wncry. The disk files of the victim machine will be tampered with the corresponding suffix, all kinds of data cannot be opened normally.”

"A ransom must be paid, and the amount of the ransom varies. Generally speaking, the ransom for a personal computer is relatively low, only three hundred dollars, but for an enterprise computer, the ransom may be as high as several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars!"

"These people are quite courageous!" Tong Chenfeng snorted coldly, "How long will it take to crack this virus?"

The technician was a little bit embarrassed and said: "It's hard to tell when, because if you want to remove the loopholes in the WINDOSW system, you must improve the vulnerabilities of the WINDOSW system. Now many foreign companies and institutions have begun to crack, including Microsoft itself, but so far no one has announced that it can remove the ransomware. "

"No matter what, we must be fast!" Tong Chenfeng exhorted, "This is not only our user's demand, but also a key node to compete for the market!"

For a long time, the users of 3600 have always been on top of Penguin Security Manager. If Penguin can take the lead in launching the ransomware protection tool this time, they will definitely win a good reputation, and they may surpass 3600 in one fell swoop.
Like them, 3600 company also urgently summoned information security technicians to study the ransomware virus, racing against time, as long as they solve this problem one second earlier than other companies, they can make a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)