EternalBlue exploit running wild

[Sirius]

Well well, those bag of tricks are now being used. Patch those darn Windows boxes!

https://goo.gl/8z8tBB

 

[infscrtyrisk]

Patching is #1 priority agreed. But you can temporarily mitigate by creating perfc.dat in c:\windows and apply permissions to prevent it executing and writing.

 

[halfmoonforever]

Patching is #1 priority agreed. But you can temporarily mitigate by creating perfc.dat in c:\windows and apply permissions to prevent it executing and writing.

yes, because most end-users know how to create/change permissions on files vs clicking a button just to update their OS. lol

 

[Suspect99]

Well well, those bag of tricks are now being used. Patch those darn Windows boxes!

https://goo.gl/8z8tBB

I'm not clicking on that dodgy looking link. Its a trap!!

 

[Sirius]

The link takes you to a news site called The Hacker News. No dodgy links or trapping of forum users here!