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After the cyberattack that left affected in at least 150 countries, Microsoft described the event as a wake-up call for governments and organizations collecting computer vulnerabilities. The company also blamed the US National Security Agency (NSA) for what happened. Photo/However “We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA appear on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world,” said Microsoft chief legal counsel Brad Smith. “The WannaCrypt malicious software used in the attack was extracted from software stolen from the National Security Agency in the United States,” says the executive. The bug was patched by Microsoft in mid-March and those who did not update their equipment remained vulnerable to attacks, so the hack affected the United Kingdom's National Health Service, FedEx, Telefónica, Renault and Nissan, American universities, Russian governments and ATMs. Chinese automatics, among many other systems in 150 countries.
Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith said that by keeping software weaknesses secret, developers are kept “in the dark,” unable to release updates, and their customers are left vulnerable to attacks like the one that exploited this weekend. of week. “An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be Iceland Mobile Number List for the US military to see some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. “This attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cybersecurity threats in the world today—nation-state action and organized criminal action,” Smith wrote in a Microsoft blog post published on Sunday. “World governments should treat this attack as a wake-up call, they need to take a different approach and adhere to cyberspace to the same rules that apply to weapons in the physical world. “We need governments to consider the harm to civilians that comes from accumulating knowledge of those vulnerabilities and exploiting them through their tools.
The damage count… Most companies are working to prevent this threat from happening and the first cases of attacks have already begun to be reported, especially in Asia and Oceania. The South Korean government said it reported nine cases of ransomware but did not provide further details. In Australia they noted that three companies reported blockages while in New Zealand the Minister of Economic Affairs said that small unconfirmed incidents are being investigated. In Japan , companies Nissan and Hitachi said they had some units affected. In China , PetroChina, the oil giant said that at some of its stations users have not been able to use the electronic payment system.” He added that “if natural resources are exhausted with the current exploitation model, we will be the most affected.” Jose Sarukhán, head of the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio), considered that “business and sustainability are not in conflict” and called for conceiving agricultural, productive and commercial processes with an ethical sense.