EternalBlue Infections Persist

Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, Russia, China, among the top 10 nations with the most machines infected with the exploit.

The infamous EternalBlue exploit used in the game-changing
WannaCry
and
NotPetya
cyberattacks just wont die: new research shows 300,000 machines around the globe suffering repeat infections of the attack code.
EternalBlue, pilfered from the NSA and leaked by the mysterious Shadow Brokers group, abuses a flaw in Microsofts Server Message Block, SMB1, protocol. Researchers at Avira found a large number of machines - mainly running versions of Windows that dont get updates and the older SMB2 protocol getting infected over and over with EternalBlue.
There are still significant numbers of repeatedly infected machines more than a year after
the big WannaCry
and Petya attacks, said Mikel Echevarria-Lizarraga, senior virus analyst in the Avira Protection Lab, which is currently deactivating some 14,000 computers per day with the vulnerable SMB1 protocol.
Once the SMB1 protocol is deactivated, we dont see the same machines affected again and again with this problem, Echevarria-Lizarraga said. According to Avira, most of the infected machines are in Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Egypt, Russia, China, Philippines, India, and Turkey.
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