Sentences with phrase «kill switch domain»

Researchers at Check Point spotted a new variant of WannaCry that used a different kill switch domain (it pings it and if it finds it isn't registered, it activates the ransomware; for more details, check out the original post on this behavior).

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Hutchins, 22, played a pivotal and unlikely role in stopping the spread of malware known as WannaCry when he discovered a functional domain kill switch for WannaCry.

The worm was eventually stopped when a security researcher who goes by the Twitter handle «MalwareTech» registered a domain name that acted as a kill switch for the worm.

The first variant, WannaCry 2.0 (a) pointed its kill switch to a different Internet domain, which promptly was registered and sinkholed, he told the E-Commerce Times.

The concept of malware kill switches hit the mainstream in May, when a cybersecurity wunderkind managed to halt the spread of WannaCry by registering a domain contained in the ransomware's...