{"id":57313,"date":"2017-06-21T16:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=57313"},"modified":"2017-06-21T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:26:30","slug":"wannacry-continues-infect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wannacry-continues-infect\/","title":{"rendered":"WannaCry Continues to Infect Business Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>WannaCry Attacks Again&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>It has been over a month since the world was introduced to WannaCry ransomware. \u00a0However, even with increased awareness and preventative options in place, businesses are still being effected. \u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2017\/06\/21\/business\/corporate-business\/ransomware-cyberattack-halts-production-honda-plant-saitama\/#.WUrUlIwrKM8\">Honda plant in Japan<\/a> was the most recent victim of the WannaCry epidemic. \u00a0On June 18, 2017, the plant had to temporarily shut down operations while they fixed their computers after an apparent ransomware attack took place.<\/p>\n<p>Within 24 hours the plant was back to full operations. \u00a0However, this begs the question &#8212; why were they infected to begin with? \u00a0With WannaCry being &#8220;old news&#8221; to antivirus programs, all of them should know to block the malware. \u00a0How did it sneak through? \u00a0Did the plant even have a security solution in place? \u00a0It&#8217;s doubtful that an organization of that size would fail to protect its data with an adequate security program. \u00a0Although, that is clearly the case.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever solution Honda is using failed them, and failed them miserably. \u00a0Perhaps it&#8217;s time to use a <a href=\"https:\/\/cart.pcpitstop.com\/go.asp?id=504631\">solution <\/a>with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/whitelist\">application whitelisting<\/a> technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WannaCry Attacks Again&#8230; It has been over a month since the world was introduced to WannaCry ransomware. \u00a0However, even with increased awareness and preventative options in place, businesses are still being effected. \u00a0A Honda plant in Japan was the most recent victim of the WannaCry epidemic. \u00a0On June 18, 2017, the plant had to temporarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":57069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4949,4944,5000],"tags":[4363,5112,5252],"class_list":["post-57313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ransomware","category-ransomware-reports","category-ransomwarewar","tag-ransomware","tag-ransomware-attacks","tag-wannacry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WannaCry Continues to Infect Business Operations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over a month after WannaCry ransomware rocked the world, another attack has taken place. 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