10. Start Anti-Virus (II)

"Nuwa explained the spread of the ransomware virus in China."

At night, Nie Lan asked impatiently in the room alone.

"Yes sir, now the ransomware virus in Europe and the United States and other countries has seriously suspended the functions of network services in large cities in some countries, such as transportation, medical care, services, police and so on."

Nuwa gave a detailed list of how harmful the ransomware virus is currently in the international arena.

"Now the media in Europe and the United States and other countries have begun to report on the incident seriously, and it has only been two days, because of the suspension of network services, the economic loss has directly reached 500 million US dollars."

"It is expected that by the end of the final period, the economic loss caused by the ransomware virus will be as high as $8 billion in global losses, but because the company has urgently dealt with the single-port vulnerability of the Microsoft system and released the latest version of the vulnerability patch, it will greatly hinder the spread of some viruses, but it is only a drop in the bucket."

Nie Lan nodded, after all, the countries in the West are now the hardest hit areas where the ransomware virus is rampant.

"And what about domestic?" He then asked.

"The domestic media disseminated and published the content of the foreign media about the ransomware virus, and the vast majority of netizens also knew about it, and the domestic ransomware virus also began to spread rapidly, and the first large domestic enterprise with the most serious impact was 'Huaxia Northern Airlines Co., Ltd.'."

Nie Lan glanced at Nuwa, who showed that there was information about the civil aviation company, and the channel path of the ransomware virus to infect the company's data center.

Because it is a flight company, and there is also a part of the international flight business, there is a ticketing platform for foreign Chinese to book tickets in foreign China Northern Airlines Co., Ltd., but the data submitted and processed by this ticketing platform comes from the data center of their company in China.

It is precisely because of this that the national firewall was skipped, and the virus was directly brought in from foreign countries.

Then Nuwa also said that Huaxia Northern Airlines Co., Ltd. had provided a ransom to the hackers, so all the ransomware viruses they were infected with had been lifted.

This is also understandable by Nie Lan, after all, people are now so dependent on the Internet, for the senior managers of Huaxia Northern Airlines Co., Ltd.

Every minute and every second of delay caused the loss is much higher than the ransom paid.

"Secondly, some of the affected companies that rely on the Internet have all chosen to pay the high ransom, and the well-known domestic companies have all paid when the impact of computer viruses on them is not very obvious......

Then Nuwa listed part of the list, looking at the familiar names on the list, Nie Lan was startled, basically many well-known bigwig-level enterprises in China have all been affected by the ransomware virus.

It's just that the ransom was paid early when the ransomware virus had not yet affected the company's business, and it was not discovered by the public.

Fortunately, the ransomware was spread and released for the purpose of demanding a ransom, in order to bring high profits and wealth to the hackers who made it.

If you don't want to ask for a ransom and don't provide any way to crack it, then the degree of harm of this impact will definitely be 300 times greater.

The impact is estimated to be 30% of the world's Internet companies.

Especially now more and more rely on big data centers for bank information data, medical data, public information data, and so on...... The direct economic loss will be unimaginable......

However, even if this list surprised Nie Lan, it was more of a disappointment.

Even if some domestic Internet bigwigs were poisoned, they would have been invaded into the data center by the ransomware virus so simply, and they could only obediently pay the ransom when they were not discovered by the public.

And there was no precaution at all in advance.

Among them, there is also an Internet tycoon who shouts all day long about developing artificial intelligence.

Not to mention anything else, even if it is a prototype of artificial intelligence, what you need to do is a strict protection system, and such a ransomware virus will not invade the core of artificial intelligence at all.

For example, Nuwa, in the 21st century, is definitely a god on the Internet.

If you want to make a computer virus that makes her feel troublesome, you can't do it unless you bring out the big guys in science fiction movies.

But that's simply not possible......

Therefore, for this era, most of the real artificial intelligence is just cheering and shouting slogans.

Every time the times progress, it will be a leap forward, and then there will be a period of pause......

"Now the campus network, the medical network, the transportation network, the police network...... and so on, it has basically been affected......" Nie Lan thought for a while, and finally said.

"After the early hours of the morning tonight, Nuwa, you activated all the hidden ransomware antivirus files, and now the ransomware virus has become a vicious tiger image in front of the vast majority of netizens, and it is time for us to appear as a positive hero of fighting tigers."

"Yes sir." Nuwa absolutely obeyed Nie Lan's words.

Nie Lan then asked, "Have you found out who the guys who made this ransomware virus are?" ”

"Yes, I went along the earliest extortion channel of the ransomware virus, and finally screened it and determined that the ransomware virus was uploaded and released from five cities: London in the United Kingdom, Paris in France, Helsinki in Finland, Warsaw in Poland, and Berlin in Germany."

Nie Lan frowned, it turned out to be the virus from the five national capitals in Europe that was the first to upload and release.

This not only accelerates the regional spread of the virus, but also greatly disrupts the scope of future traceability.

Since they chose to upload virus files on the network of five national capitals, it is certain that none of these five cities are their headquarters.

It's not like a form of hacking for the sole purpose of getting rich.

Instead, it's more like a hacker group, and it's a hacker organization with a tight plan.

"So you'll be able to find their headquarters?"

Nuwa explained, "Originally, it would take some time to calculate, but after cracking the virus file, it was discovered that the ransomware file would access a 'domain name' that did not exist at all after it was executed. ”

"If the domain name is not registered, then the virus will continue to spread, but if the domain name is registered, then the ransomware will start suicide mode."

Nie Lan thought for a moment and said, "It sounds like hackers, a backup means to suppress the virus." ”

However, as if thinking of something, Nie Lan suddenly asked eagerly, "What is that non-existent domain name, and can you find out the administrative ...... where the scope of international domain name registration is located?"

"It has been found out, the administrative area is in Poland, and it was through this clue that I found a small town in Poland called 'Mokoca Road'."

Nie Lan smiled lightly, the gang created a ransomware virus, and chose five capital cities to upload it, in order to be afraid of being tracked down.

But they would never have imagined that the reason for finding them in the end was through the means behind the containment of the virus.

Nie Lan smiled, and finally went directly to sleep under the covers, tomorrow will be a day full of vitality.