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ESET Eternal Blue Checker Tool

I just attended an ESET webinar on the latest Ransomware attacks.

Takeaways from the session were, it is an ESET recommendation that we use the latest products available from ESET. We know that this is impossible sometimes, as only older ESET products work in specific environments.  Older products like Version 7 and 8 still get the database definitions, so in theory even older products would have stopped the attacks.

ESET added the database definitions for Eternal Blue (WannaCry) on April 25th.  This was at least two weeks before the outbreak, so

https://help.eset.com/eset_tools/ESETEternalBluechecker.exe

https://download.eset.com/com/eset/tools/decryptors/cysis/latest/esetcrysisdecryptor.exe

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue

 

 

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