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How to protect your business and your end users:

• Deploy the MS17-010 update issued by Microsoft on March 14. This patches the
vulnerabilities being exploited by WannaCry.

• Educate employees on how to spot and report phishing.

• Deploy a DMARC policy to reduce spearphishing emails that target employees, such as
those emails used to deliver ransomware like WannaCry.

Our Take

We have blogged a lot about digital trust, fake news and all sort of tricks that criminals use to
get the attention of consumers to have them click in a link.

Yet this is one area that continues to amaze us: how sophisticated the manipulation of the
human factor has become.

It will only be a matter of time until we see the WannaCry malware expand further to trick end
users to install a patch that allegedly prevents the new massive ransomware attack.

However, this time it will not be a patch, but a new version or variant of a financially motivated
malware.

About the Author
Fernando Cuervo, Detect Monitoring Service Leader, Easy Solutions

Fernando Cuervo is an Easy Solutions engineer in charge of Detect Monitoring Service (DMS).
He ensures his team is continually protecting brands from cyber fraud through the latest threat
intelligence technology.

He has extensive experience in fraud detection and deactivation, network design and data
transmission.

Before coming to Easy Solutions, Fernando was a Project Coordinator at RED. He speaks
Spanish and English.

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