WannaCry attacks are only the beginning, experts warn

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WannaCry attacks are only the beginning, experts warn

Article Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3196927/security/wannacry-attacks-are-only-the-beginning.html

"It’s probably going to get worse before it gets better, as it’s going to be one of the most serious threats for the following 12 months," Catalin Cosoi, Bitdefender's chief security strategist, said in a blog post about the EternalBlue vulnerability and the on-going attacks.

He believes that state-sponsored cyberespionage groups could also take advantage of the SMB flaw to plant stealthy backdoors on computers while defenders are busy dealing with the much more visible ransomware attack.