{"id":12994,"date":"2026-05-20T06:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/wanttocry-ransomware-remotely-encrypts-files\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:08:25","slug":"wanttocry-ransomware-remotely-encrypts-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/wanttocry-ransomware-remotely-encrypts-files\/","title":{"rendered":"WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Brute-force attempts against SMB services can be early signs of an attack<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories:<\/strong> Threat Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong> Ransomware, WantToCry, SMB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/blog\/wanttocry-ransomware-remotely-encrypts-files\">Go to sophos<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files Brute-force attempts against SMB services can be early signs of an attack Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, WantToCry, SMB Go to sophos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sophos","tag-sophos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}