Assistant Professor of Information Security Dr. Khaled Al-Essa revealed that Saudi Arabia was infected with the “ransom” virus, as the “Intel” website, which works around the clock to identify affected countries in the world, indicated that the virus arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday afternoon (Saturday), while no party announced Her injury, and it may be announced in the coming hours, asking companies, organizations and institutions not to wait until today (Sunday) to take the necessary precautions, and they must act from now, in order to reduce its damage. He said that the number of companies that have been affected around the world is very large due to a serious and new attack from the "ransom" virus, which is a virus that targets "Windows" devices, and it cannot attack "Apple and Linux", and began focusing on the health sector and the telecommunications sector. And he considered that the quick solution is to block certain ports from the Internet to the organization in the event that the update is not downloaded, and the ports are “445, 139, 3389”, then update sbm.
Ibrahim Aqili (Jeddah) @iageely