People Need: Malware and Tech

people need: Essentially they relied on a domain not being registered and by registering it, we stopped their malware spreading, Malware Tech Blog said in a private message on Twitter, according to The Japan Times. The researcher warned however that people need to update their systems ASAP to avoid attack. The researcher, tweeting as Malware Tech Blog, said the discovery was accidental, but that registering a domain name used by the malware stops it from spreading. The crisis isn't over, they can always change the code and try again, Malware Tech Blog said. The attacks used a technique known as ransomware that locks users' files unless they pay the attackers a designated sum in the virtual currency Bitcoin. Friday's wave of cyberattacks, which affected dozens of countries, apparently exploited a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the U.S. National Security Agency. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.