According to Taiwan media reports, on the night of August 3, the largest supplier of iPhone chips, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), was infected by the WannaCry ransomware and the production line was completely shut down. It is rumored that TSMC was attacked by hackers, but TSMC officially confirmed the incident that some production equipment was infected by the WannaCry ransomware. The company has controlled the extent of the virus infection and 80% of the company’s “affected tools” were repaired on Sunday.
As a key supplier of Apple’s mobile phone core processor, TSMC drew a lot of attention after the incident was exposed. The third quarter is the peak season for mobile phone production each year, so the incident may postpone Apple’s shipments. Apple’s third-quarter revenue is also expected to fall about 3%. It may even affect the launch of the new Apple mobile phone.
The WannaCry ransomware has infected more than 200,000 machines in 150 countries, causing billions of dollars worth of damage and crippling global businesses. Fortunately, ours does not have to worry. They can be totally immune to this type of ransomware without the need for patches, as long as 360 Total Security is installed.
Has WannaCry come back from the dead?
TSMC President Wei Zhejia has made it clear that the WannaCry ransomware variant is the root cause of the disaster. After the TSMC production team was attacked, all kinds of documents and data were encrypted.
In fact, ransomware has been one of the biggest threats to cybersecurity. In May 2017, “WannaCry” broke out in the world. n360 Security Center took the lead in responding. We successfully resisted WannaCry within 72 hours, helping over 500 million users prevent ransomware. Users who have not installed 360 Total Security before also recovered their losses in time through our “Ransomware Decryption Tool”.
Not too long ago, the 360 Threat Intelligence Center released the latest Ransomware Trends report. The data shows that the main target of the ransomware attack is now slowly shifting from the individual server to the business server that has higher extortion.
“Security Brain” provides a new direction to the future security network
In the context of the increasing frequency of ransomware attacks, more serious ransomware attacks are expected to occur in the future. Furthermore, ransomware is anticipated to deal devastating blows to businesses and even affect the safety of life and property and social order in the coming years.
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With the great development of the Internet, network security can be said to be a single step. The current TSMC incident is the most obvious example. So how can we protect our users and how can we compete with cybercrime is a big issue that all security
practitioners have been thinking in recent years.
To fight ransomware, in May 2018, 360 Security Center launched “Security Brain”, using Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IoT IntelliSense and Blockchain techniques to protect social and individual cybersecurity.
The “security brain” collects all security-related data, analyzes and calculates it with artificial intelligence techniques, and detects network security operations and trends in real time. predict possible attacks. It also predicts potential attacks, monitors and detects attacks in progress, and automatically responds to attacks after they are discovered. Network security devices and software distributed on the network deal with attacks and support emergency command.
At the end of May, the “epic level” EOS blockchain vulnerability was first discovered and promptly responded to the EOS supernode security fix. The “security brain” can be seen as a new direction for the development of the future security network.
How do individuals and businesses prevent ransomware attacks?
The TSMC incident can be seen as an alert not only to companies but also to individuals that the security issue should not be ignored.
Some users may think that there is no need to patch the computer and fix the vulnerability. Cleaning the computer and killing the virus is also not something that users should do on a regular basis. However, the global WannaCry infection, the TSMC incident, and other cyber attacks have made everyone realize the importance of security protection.
We would like to remind our users that having a good online habit is essential to protect the security of users’ personal information and property. Also, our recommendation is to install 360 Total Security as it can comprehensively detect and remove all kinds of ransomware variants.
