Ryuk Ransomware Now Self-Spreads to Other Windows LAN Devices

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It was recently discovered that a new Ryuk variant lists all the IP addresses in the local ARP cache to propagate itself over the local network, and sends what looks like Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets to each of the discovered devices, BleepingComputer writes. It then multiplies all sharing resources it finds for each device so that […]

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