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74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+ • The Register

"It also scans the infected system's settings to work out the user's language, and pulls up a ransom demand in the correct lingo for the victim."

'"Today our engineers added detection and protection against new malicious software known as Ransom:Win32.WannaCrypt," a Microsoft spokesperson told The Reg. ', "To counter the spread of the malware, security firms pushed out file and network traffic signatures to detect the ransomware-worm hybrid's presence and kill it.", "Connections to the magic domain – iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com – were sinkholed to a server in California, and the admins of the infected systems reaching out to the dot-com will be notified, we're told."

'FedEx told The Reg: "Like many other companies, FedEx is experiencing interference with some of our Windows-based systems caused by malware. '

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