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NSA exploit leaks have played a major role in the transmission of self-propagating malware: WannaCry used the EternalBlue SMB vulnerability, and BadRabbit exploited EternalRomance. However, ransomware authors will be able to find new ways to attack networks even without NSA leaks.

" that malware can use to spread across networks, and NotPetya used several of them — one publicly disclosed vulnerability and others that we've known about for a long time from penetration testing. The ability to extract credentials from a system in plain text — as NotPetya did — has been known since 2012. Vulnerabilities are changing their order of priority," Williams says.

While 2017 will be seen by many as the year ransomware was recognized as a real threat, it could be a harbinger of even worse times to come.

"You're going to see criminals becoming more aware of where the big money is. It's not a few thousand dollars, it's millions of dollars, and that changes the game," Alperovitch says.

Fairy Tales of Safety: Internet Drug Trade
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— Can you explain?

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— What does this have to do with us?

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