British cyber whiz あられ/賞賛するd `偶発の hero´ after stopping 全世界の ウイルス

A British cyber whiz has been あられ/賞賛するd an “偶発の hero” after he stopped the spread of a 全世界の ウイルス that brought 大混乱 to 網状組織s around the world.

The 匿名の/不明の IT 専門家 became an international sensation after he 妨げるd hundreds of thousands of computers from 存在 感染させるd by the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the NHS.

This graphic shows how ransomware like Wannacry can quickly infect an entire computer system

How ransomware 感染させるs a computer

A number of hospitals in England and Scotland were 軍隊d to 取り消す 手続きs after dozens of health care systems were brought 負かす/撃墜する.

Thousands of companies in dozens of countries, 含むing Nissan in the UK, were also 影響する/感情d by the Wanna Decryptor, also known as WannaCry, attack on Friday.

The UK-based cyber specialist, known only as MalwareTech, 登録(する)d a domain 指名する that 突然に stopped the spread of the ウイルス.

The 国家の Cyber 安全 Centre 拍手喝采する his 活動/戦闘s and said in a 声明: “マスコミ 報告(する)/憶測s today have rightly 賞賛するd the 成果/努力s of MalwareTech to 取り組む the Wannacry cyber attack.

“The NCSC has been working in 共同 with a number of organisations in the cyber 安全 community, 含むing MalwareTech and 2SEC4, to un derstand and mitigate the 現在の Wannacry ransomware 脅し.

“These 産業 partners have helped by 申し込む/申し出ing us 知能 from the sinkholed Wannacry domain.

“This sinkholed domain has 妨げるd その上の 感染s occurring and has already resulted in 妨げるing over 100,000 可能性のある 感染s.”

MalwareTech 述べるd the events as “crazy” in his blog, which was 株d on the NCSC website.

“Now one thing that’s important to 公式文書,認める is the actual 登録 of the domain was not on a whim,” he 追加するd.

“My 職業 is to look for ways we can 跡をつける and 潜在的に stop botnets (and other 肉親,親類d of malware), so I’m always on the 警戒/見張り to 選ぶ up unregistered malware 支配(する)/統制する server domains.”

He 警告するd Microsoft 使用者s that those behind the attack could easily 修正する the ウイルス and 再発進する it, making it 批判的な to update 安全 and anti-ウイルス ソフトウェア as soon as possible.

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