What are “WannaMine” attacks, and how do I avoid them?

There’s a hot security news topic right now that combines the ETERNALBLUE exploit and cryptomining.

ETERNALBLUE is infamous for having been used in the WannaCry worm, so the combination of this method of breaking in, followed by a cryptomining payload, has been dubbed WannaMine.

WannaMine attacks aren’t a new thing, but the number of enquiries our Support team are receiving from people wanting to know about the issue has risen sharply this year.

Support asked us if we’d make a Facebook Live video about it…so here it is:

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