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KUALA LUMPUR (June 3): Cyber security company Vigilant Asia said today that “tens of thousands of Malaysian computer users” are vulnerable to a new cyber threat called BlueKeep, reported the Malay Mail today.
As a result, potentially “nearly one million computers connected directly to the Internet are vulnerable to the BlueKeep exploit”, said the report by the news portal.
“Vigilant Asia’s Threat Intelligence Team have found that over 13,500 computers are reachable via Remote Desktop Protocol in Malaysia and out of which over 2,700 host computers are vulnerable to BlueKeep.
“The balance 11,000+ may still not be safe, they could still be vulnerable if authentication is gained which could be retrieved from internal network machines or by using Brute Force attacks.
“It only takes one vulnerable computer connected to the internet to provide a potential gateway into business networks, where advanced malware could spread, infecting computers across the enterprise,” Vigilant Asia wrote in a statement.
BlueKeep is similar to the malware WannaCry that took the world by storm in 2017.
Vigilant Asia “warned” that “it could be worse” for computer systems that have not been equipped with the latest fixes, adding that “any future malware may also attempt further exploitation of vulnerabilities that have already been fixed”, reported the news portal.
Microsoft issued a second advisory very recently about “BlueKeep vulnerability”, calling on the public to “update their systems to prevent a re-run of attacks such as WannaCry and NotPetya”.
The Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team also issued an advisory about BlueKeep vulnerability on Saturday.
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