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CRYING IS FUTILE: SandBlast Forensic Analysis of WannaCry

By bferrite

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Using the NSA exploit EternalBlue released by the Shadow Brokers, the WannaCry ransomware developers have added their names to malware lore. Given the number of institutions hit and the amount of media generated, it seemed appropriate to show what the ransomware actually does on a system through our SandBlast Agent Forensics product.

The WannaCry outbreak has been a good test case for the recently launched SandBlast Anti-Ransomware. AR and Forensics work together as part of our SandBlast Agent product. As we had expected, Anti-Ransomware was up to the task and has successfully blocked all WannaCry samples we’ve thrown at it, without requiring any signatur…

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