{"id":4258,"date":"2018-06-25T10:52:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2faf07d4-a341-4323-b883-97517edaea8f"},"modified":"2018-06-25T10:52:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T10:52:14","slug":"phishing-scam-claims-to-deliver-wannacry-demands-bitcoin-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/phishing-scam-claims-to-deliver-wannacry-demands-bitcoin-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing scam claims to deliver WannaCry, demands bitcoin ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"relatedContent alignRight\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\"><span class=\"int\">More security news<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>A new phishing campaign falsely claims to infect PCs with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wannacry-ransomware-was-the-biggest-challenge-of-the-year-says-cyber-security-centre\/\">WannaCry ransomware<\/a> and then demands users pay a bitcoin ransom in order to prevent their files from being deleted.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s all a scam looking to play on the high-profile name of WannaCry &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/pictures\/gallery-10-major-organizations-affected-by-the-wannacry-ransomware-attack\/\">which caused chaos around the world in May last year<\/a> &#8212; and the phishing email doesn&#8217;t have the power to encrypt anything, and instead looks to exploit the potential fear of victims.<\/p>\n<p>An alert about the scam has been issued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/news\/fake-wannacry-emails-demanding-payment-jun18\">the UK&#8217;s fraud and cybercrime centre Action Fraud and the City of London Police<\/a>, which have received over 300 alerts about the email over the past few days. Those who receive the email are told to delete it and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">report it to the authorities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The email claims to be from &#8216;WannaCry-Hack-team&#8217; and comes with the misspelled subject line of &#8216;Attantion WannaCry&#8217;. Those who open the message are told that &#8216;WannaCry is back&#8217; and that &#8216;all your devices were hacked&#8217; with a version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ransomware-an-executive-guide-to-one-of-the-biggest-menaces-on-the-web\/\">ransomware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/wannacry-ransomware-crisis-one-year-on-are-we-ready-for-the-next-global-cyber-attack\/\">WannaCry ransomware crisis, one year on: Are we ready for the next global cyber attack?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The message goes onto threaten users that their files &#8212; on any device using Windows, IOS, macOs, Android or Linux &#8212; will be encrypted and permanently deleted should they not comply with the ransom demand.<\/p>\n<p>Given that WannaCry only infects Windows systems, it&#8217;s impossible for the attackers to follow through with their claims that their theoretical ransomware could infect devices run on other operating systems.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img aspect-set\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zdnet1.cbsistatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2018\/06\/25\/0af0529b-2eea-44f6-b92e-f630b930152d\/resize\/770xauto\/0a725394860f5c9bf4e0ae40bdcd1170\/fake-wannacry.jpg\" class=\"\" alt=\"fake-wannacry.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"770\"\/><\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Image: Pro Networks<\/span><\/p>\n<section class=\"sharethrough-top\" data-component=\"medusaContentRecommendation\" data-medusa-content-recommendation-options=\"{&quot;promo&quot;:&quot;promo_ZD_recommendation_sharethrough_top_in_article_desktop&quot;,&quot;spot&quot;:&quot;dfp-in-article&quot;}\">\n<\/section>\n<p>Those behind the phishing email threaten to follow through with the plan to activate WannaCry &#8212; unless the person reading the email pays 0.1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/how-bitcoin-helped-fuel-an-explosion-in-ransomware-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\">bitcoin<\/a> ($650) into a specified wallet to &#8220;ensure against data demolition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re told to send an email once the payment has been made, at which point the victim will be told how to avoid data being erased &#8212; but given that that this phishing scam doesn&#8217;t even deliver proper ransomware, anyone who pays up is paying for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the user is told that should they try to delete the WannaCry &#8216;program&#8217; then their files will immediately be deleted &#8212; although there isn&#8217;t any program to delete in the first place. &#8220;In reality the emails are just a phishing exercise to try and extort money,&#8221; said Action Fraud.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/what-is-phishing-how-to-protect-yourself-from-scam-emails-and-more\/\">What is phishing? Everything you need to know to protect yourself from scam emails and more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>IT company Pro-Networks &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pronetworksuk\/status\/1009730084293500928\">which posted an image of the fake WannaCry ransom note<\/a> &#8212; said the phishing message is &#8220;is designed to cause panic resulting in payment of their empty threat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, it appears panic is low as no one has fallen victim to this particular scam at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t the first time opportunistic criminals have tried to take advantage of WannaCry: in the days after it hit last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/now-tech-support-scams-are-exploiting-wannacry-ransomware-fears\/\">support scammers attempted to take advantage of the fear around the ransomware in order to charge for fake security software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE ON CYBER CRIME<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/phishing-scam-claims-to-deliver-wannacry-demands-bitcoin-ransom\/#ftag=RSSbaffb68\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the message claims it will encrypt data if you don&#8217;t pay up, the threat is an empty one.<br \/>\nREAD MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zdnet-security"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Phishing scam claims to deliver WannaCry, demands bitcoin ransom 2026 | ThreatsHub Cybersecurity News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" 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