WannaProtect

The multiservice provider and the System Software system integrator announced in June, 2017 start of WannaProtect service – a complex of preventive actions for prevention of the attacks of encoders racketeers on IT infrastructures of the enterprises.

Within WannaProtect service information security specialists book audit of IT infrastructure of the company, up to simulation of the real attack on computers of users, reveal weak points and make recommendations about protection gain. Simulation of the attack is performed using specialized software which sends the "infected" letters on computers of users and collects statistics – percent of the "got" users who opened the application or passed by clicking the link. These services for the addressed companies are provided free of charge.

"Practice of information security – one of the biggest in the company, – Maxim Tikurkin, the CEO of "System software" comments. – Therefore it would be strange if we did not offer examination to the market, against the background of sharp aggravation of a situation with cyberthreats now. Attack of the encoder of WannaCry though the loudest today, but absolutely definitely not the last. Possibly, it will not even be the most large-scale, taking into account the wide tools of means of the attacks available to malefactors worldwide today".

The number of the users attacked using encoders grew up by 5.5 times, from 130,000 in 2014-2015 to more than 700,000 in 2015-2016, note in the company. For last year programs encoders attacked 38% of the Russian companies of medium and small business, and according to researches of Malwarebytes company, from June, 2015 to June, 2016 nearly 40% of the companies were attacked by viruses racketeers.