Today was a big day for the WanaCrypt0r ransomware as it took the world by storm by causing major outbreaks all over the world. While BleepingComputer has covered. Create 2 files baseline. Contents of baseline. Contents of baseline. Java 1. 7 Deployment with SCCMMDT1. Update From a comment below. I havent tested this as Ive given up on Java completely. I just wanted to leave a note with how i got this working there was lots of info in this thread but it was hard to find a clear step by step with success. Run the Java exe on a test machine, digg out the MSI files from the userprofileAppdata. Create an MST using ORCA, set the update settings to not update etc. Create a blank deployment. Install the MSI MST Copy the deployment. C WindowsSunJavadeployment Launch IE, browse to http javatester. Test the version with the button on the site Accept the security prompt in our org. HIGH Wait for any pop up about an out of date version Open up REGEDIT Browse to HKCUSoftwareApp. Data. LowSoftwareJava. SoftDeployment. Properties You should see deployment. REGSZ false Retest by re loading the Javatester. Retest by closing reopening browser and hitting Javatester. Log off and on as a new user, repeat test to make sure the HKCU is being populated under the new user. Package up Have a beerpdate 72. Sorry all, havent been as active with this as Id like. Unfortuntely we had to bite the bullet and get everyone upgraded to the latest and greatest. It does seem that Oracle FINALLY sees this is massive issue and has released some patched versions for this. Check all of the comments for the download link. I personally havent even looked at the patches yet, so use at your own risk. Please also look thru all the comments. There any many different ways to look at resolving this at least temporarily. Update 61. JAVA 7 UPDATE 2. RELEASED. It appears a path was released for update 2. I can see for 2. 5 yet. From the commentsUpdate 51. PLEASE read all comments before implementing this. Java has yet again changed the game and made the expiration date unavoidable. Theres a lot of good info for temporary workarounds in the comments. Key word TEMPORARY. Unfortunately, you need a login on My Oracle Support MSO. As I dont have a login I cannot provide you a deep link to this particular patch. If you have a login, you can sign in on http support. Patches and Updates, then search for patch ID 1. BTW I have applied this interim patch on my PC today and changed the system date to August 1. JRE 1. 7. 02. 1. The infamous update popup did not occur, so the patch seems to work. Oracle released an interim patch, 1. JRE and JDK 1. 7. Auto update Off and Insecure Java Version Message suppressed README for 1. Patch Details. Bug Number 1. Product Name Oracle JDK and JRE 1. Auto update Off and Insecure Java Version Message suppressed Interim Patch. Platform Windows i. Joe in the comments Got some bad news. If you start messing with your system date and set it to 51. This all appears to be due to the JREEXPIRATIONDATE value that is hard coded to that date in 7. I tested it with 7. I mispoke in my post above 71. So I dont know of any way to beat this. Im using this to push anyone with a JRE related app to demand from the vendor to move away from it. What a joke. 3 billion devices and counting well see about that Oracle. Java, I do not like youWell, I am sure almost everyone is aware of the infamous Java updating mechanism within Java 1. Heres the scenario if you havent already witnessed the madness with Java 1. At the time of this writing, Java 1. We package it up just like any other version, disabling auto updates, and everything looks fine. Then, we fast forward a few months and update 1. No big deal, right Our package was set to turn Java auto update off. I wish it were so. Once a user hits a webpage that uses Java, they will most likely see the following prompt. The scary part youd never even know this was a problem until its too late. If you deployed the latest version you wouldnt see any error messages at all. Its only when a new version of Java is released that the messages start arriving. Your Java version is insecure. Click Update to install the recommended secure version. Click Block to stop Java content in your browser or Later to continue and be reminded again later. Unreal. So lets go thru the options here. Update Since 9. Result Service Desk Call. Block Block the app from running Thats why they are at this webpage to start with. Result Service Desk Call. Later Well, this one kind of works. This will at least get rid of the warning but only bring you to another Result Service Desk Call. Lets assume a user clicks later They will then see this additional popup message. Do you want to run this application Your version of Java is insecure and an application from the location below is requesting permission to run. This particular site is just a Java tester site So heres our new options. Run This will actually run the Java app. Result No Service Desk Call hopefullyUpdate Another attempt to update Java to the latest version remember, Java auto update is turned off, right Again, no local admin on most corporate machines. Result Service Desk Call. Cancel Stops the app from running. Result Service Desk Call. As you can see, sending this to an enterprise wide distribution is not an option. This would generate enormous amounts of Service Desk calls and very unhappy users. This completely blows my mind. I thought Adobe Flash was bad but now Oracle has topped the list. I could go on for hours on why Oracle should disable this feature. Until they do, we need a workaround. Heres my solution. Not perfect by any means. It seems to get rid of ostof the popups. You may have to tweak some things depending on your corporate policyapplication requirementsetc. Remove all older versions of Java at least 1. My testing with 1. I realize application requirement may prevent this from happening. Verify C WINDOWSsunjavadeployment directory is empty. If not, have your install script delete this full directory. You need to now create 2 text files, deployment. These files basically replace the command line switches in the java install. Here are the contents of deployment. C WINDOWSSunJavaDeploymentdeployment. The top line basically tells the system where your deployment. For simplicity I just stuck it in the default location but could also reside on the network. The second line tells the system if this is mandatory. I dont know much more about this setting. Just set it to true. Here are the contents to put into deployment. NEVERdeployment. expiration. TRUEdeployment. version7. MEDIUMdeployment. DISABLEdeployment. ALWAYSdeployment. NEVERThe key settings above are deployment. NEVER deployment. TRUEThese settings suppresses the Later button so you are never prompted. MEDIUMThis is a big one also. Still not 1. The default in the Java install is HIGH so I hate to set this lower. The MEDIUM setting seems to get rid of most of the popups. The only setting I could find that completely suppresses all warning popup is LOW but I cant imagine security departments allowing this. May as well stick with the older versions of Java. ALWAYSThis setting suppresses the second popup that warns about running the Java application. Set to ALWAYSThese 2 files need to be copied to the C WINDOWSsunjavadeployment directory. Have your script create the directory after you delete it. Update 382. NEW STEPCreate the folder C Documents and SettingsUserApplication DataSunJavaDeploymentsecurity before installing Java. Create 2 files baseline. Contents of baseline. Contents of baseline. I believe this is telling Java what the current version is for each 1. I figured out that when you are prompted it creates this file and the registry shown below. It defaults to 1. I changed that setting to 1. Another option to get this file is to break it intentionally and go edit this file. Crossing my fingers. It also shows up in the registy like this. Wanna. Cry Wana Decryptor Wana. Crypt. 0r Info Technical Nose Dive. Today was a big day for the Wanna. Cry Wana. Crypt. Telefonica, Chinese Universities, the Russian Interior Ministry, and other organizations. While Bleeping. Computer will be covering these outbreaks in depth, I felt it may be a good idea to take a technical dive into the Wana. Crypt. 0r ransomware so those in the IT field who may be dealing with it can get a basic understanding of how it works. Unfortunately, at this time files encrypted by Wanna. Crypt. 0r can not be decrypted for free. If you need help or support with this ransomware, Bleeping. Computer has set up a dedicated Wana. Crypt. 0r Wana Decrypt. Help Support Topic. Is this ransomware called Wanna. Cry, Wanna. Cryptor, Wana. Crypt. 0r, or Wana Decrypt. While the internal name given by the developer for this ransomware is Wana. Crypt. 0r, you are going to see news articles, including mine, calling it other things. This is because the ransomware has a lock screendecryptor that is called Wana Decrypt. WNCRY. So what should we call itPersonally, I think we should stick with Wana. Crypt. 0r as that is its true name. Unfortunately, most people will not call it that because the first thing they will see is the lock screen that is titled Wana Decrypt. As that is what most people will be searching for, we will be calling it Wana. Decrypt. 0r or Wanna. Cry during this article. How does Wanna. Cry Spread Malware. Hunter. Team first spotted Wana. Crypt. 0r a few weeks ago, but the ransomware for the most part was hardly distributed. Suddenly, Wanna. Cry exploded and began spreading like wild fire through an exploit called ETERNALBLUE, which is an alleged NSA exploit leaked online last month by hacking group called The Shadow Brokers. This ransomware is spreads through a Worm executable that scans the Internet for Windows servers that have the Samba TCP port 4. This port is the SMB port that the ETERNALBLUE exploit uses to gain access to a computer. When the Worm gains access to a computer it will create a copy of itself and execute the program on the infected computer. Once the Worm is running on the computer, it will try to connect to one of the following domains depending on the variant. If it is able to connect to this domain, then the Worm will not deploy the ransomware component and the victims files will not become encrypted. At the same time, the worm component will remain active and continue to try and infect other computers. Ultimately, this domain acts like a kill switch for the initialization of the ransomware and was discovered accidentally when a security researcher registered the domain to get statistics on infections. Currently this kill switch is active and the ransomware is no encrypting computers, but is still spreading to other computers. More information about this kill switch can be found in our Wana Decrypt. Ransomware Outbreak Temporarily Stopped By Accidental Hero article. If the Worm component is unable to connect to the above domain, though, it extracts a password protected ZIP file to the same folder as the Worm program. This zip file contains the ransomware, which is then executed and encrypts the files on the victims computer. More information about how the encryption works can be found below. As the Worm spreads by using a vulnerability in SMBv. Microsoft patched in March as part of security bulletin MS1. If you have not installed the updates mentioned in the MS1. STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW AND INSTALL IT. Yes, I did that all in caps because it is that important. While the ransomware is no longer spreading, it is trivial for the ransomware developer to simply release a new version without this killswitch. Therefore, install your updates so you dont lose your files when you become infected What is this Kill Switch Everyone is Talking About A kill switch is an event that is used to stop a program from continuing to execute. In the case of Wanna. Cry, the kill switch is a domain name that the Worm component of Wann. Cry connects to when it starts. If the worm executable is able to connect to this web site, the program quits and does not spread to any other machines or drop the ransomware component. On the other hand, if it is not able to connect to the kill switch domain, then the ransomware component is dropped and executed to encrypt the victims computer. When the Wanna. Cry worm was released on March 1. Since then, numerous other samples were released that contained other kill switches. It is generally thought that these new releases are in fact not being released by the original malware developer, but rather by people who are looking to cause mischief or by researchers who are analyzing the ransomware and mistakenly allow it to escape their labs. A full list of the kill switch domains is found at the end of this article. Is it possible to Decrypt Files Encrypted by Wanna. Cry Under certain circumstances, it may be possible to recover files encrypted by using the Wana. Kiwi program. This program will try to recreate the private decryption key from data stored in the memory of the Wanna. Cry process. Unfortunately, this means that in order for the tool to properly work, the computer can not have been rebooted, the Wanna. Cry process could not have been terminated at any point, and the data in memory has not been overwritten by other data. While the chances of successfully using this tool outside of a lab environment are slim, if your files are encrypted by Wanna. Cry then you should absolutely try Wana. Kiwi as you have nothing to lose. How does Wanna. Cry Encrypt a Computer When a computer becomes infected with Wana Decrypt. This embedded resource is a password protected zip folder that contains a variety of files that are used by and executed by Wana. Crypt. 0r. The Wana. Decrypt. 0r loader will then extract the contents of this zip file into the same folder and perform some startup tasks. It will first extract localized version of the ransom notes into the msg folder. The currently supported languages are Bulgarian, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Wana. Crypt. 0r will then download a TOR client from https dist. Task. Data folder. This TOR client is used to communicate with the ransomware C2 servers at gx. In order to prep the computer so that it can encrypt as many files as possible, Wana. Acdc Rock Band Torrent Wii Toy. Crypt. 0r will now execute the command icacls. Everyone F T C Q in order to change give everyone full permissions to the files located in the folder and subfolders under where the ransomware was executed. It then terminates processes associated with database servers and mail servers so it can encrypt databases and mail stores as well. The commands that are executed to terminate the database and exchange server processes are taskkill. MSExchange taskkill. Microsoft. Exchange. Now, Wana Decrypt. When encrypting files, Wana. Decrypt. 0r will scan all drives and mapped network drives for files that have one of the following extensions. PAQ,. ARC,. aes,. When encrypting a file it will add the WANACRY It will then append the. WNCRY extension to the encrypted file to denote that the file has been encrypted. For example, a file called test. WNCRY. It should also be noted that if a user uses a cloud storage service and regularly synchronizes their locate data with the cloud, the files on the cloud will be overwritten by the encrypted versions. When encrypting files, it will also store a PleaseReadMe. Wana. Decryptor. We will take a look at those files later. Finally, Wana. Crypt. Shadow Volume Copies, disable Windows startup recovery, clear Windows Server Backup history. The commands that are issued are C WindowsSys.