Governments, Intelligence agencies as well as police enforcement only about the globe cause got already started their investigations as well as are working closely alongside affected companies to rails downward hackers responsible for the global cyber attack launched on Friday, twelfth May.
Some researchers traced dorsum WannaCry to a state-sponsored hacking group inwards North Korea, spell other believed the perpetrators mightiness hold upward Chinese.
If you lot cause got been next WannaCry coverage on The Hacker News, you lot should hold upward aware of that the WannaCry ransomware uses Tor hidden service to communicate alongside its command-and-control server.
Just yesterday, nosotros came to know that French government had seized at to the lowest degree half dozen Tor's entry guard node servers, hosted on France-based hosting providers, only ii days subsequently the outbreak of ransomware laid on spell investigating the WannaCry incident.
On 15th May, a French hacktivist, who uses online moniker ‘Aeris,’ informed Tor community that the official from Central Office for Combating Crime Related to Information as well as Communication Technologies (OCLCTIC) raided the Online.net hosting provider as well as cause got seized his "kitten1" as well as "kitten2" (torguard as well as fallback directory) servers on 14th May.
"Cops raided OVH, Online.net and FirstHeberg hosting providers on the footing of a electrical load filed yesteryear French Renault companionship that was 1 of the victims of the WannaCry infection," Aeris told The Hacker News.
"I went to courtroom to cause got access to information almost the seizer of my servers, but it refused to supply me alongside whatsoever information, as well as fifty-fifty the providers are nether gag order."Aeris told THN that he is aware of the seizer of full half dozen Tor relays, operated yesteryear v operators.
Perhaps nobody was aware of the takedown of these servers inwards interrogation until the writer of WannaCry epidemic that hitting victims worldwide was using self-spreading capabilities to infect vulnerable Windows computers, especially those using older versions of the operating system.
While most of the affected organisations cause got straightaway returned to normal, police enforcement agencies across the globe are yet on the hunt.
