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Accidentally Stopping a Global Cyber Attack
How many ISPs spoof failed DNS queries so they can feed you ads? That alone would make this useless as an evasion technique.
lmm
on May 14, 2017
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It means the malware would not execute for users on those ISPs because they false-positive for being a sandbox; that doesn't make it useless unless every ISP is doing that.
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on May 15, 2017
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OTOH it means that laptops won't activate until they are on a work network, for an SMB worm that's probably not a bad strategy.
kalleboo
on May 15, 2017
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Clearly not that many considering how well it did manage to spread.
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