{"id":1017,"date":"2017-05-15T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2017-05-15T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T03:00:42","slug":"how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks-malwaretech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks-malwaretech\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks | MalwareTech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone accidentally stopped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-39915440\">ongoing WannaCry attacks<\/a> by registering a domain.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WannaCry Map\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LyErffRX0HM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In certain sandbox environments traffic is intercepted by replying to all URL lookups with an IP address belonging to the sandbox rather than the real IP address the URL points to, a side effect of this is if an unregistered domain is queried it will respond as it it were registered (which should never happen).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malwaretech.com\/2017\/05\/how-to-accidentally-stop-a-global-cyber-attacks.html\">How to Accidentally Stop a Global Cyber Attacks | MalwareTech<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone accidentally stopped the ongoing WannaCry attacks by registering a domain. In certain sandbox environments traffic is intercepted by replying to all URL lookups with an IP address belonging to the sandbox rather than the real IP address the URL points to, a side effect of this is if an unregistered domain is queried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}