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Re: ransomware locky detected on version 4.0.4 and 4.0.3

 

Thank you for the feedback.

Den 02/12/2016 09.02 skrev "Paolo Barbato" <paolo.barbato@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Nick,
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> let me inform you that CheckPoint has verified that was a false positive.
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> *RnD confirmed this to be a false-positive.Within the next few hours, the
> database will be updated and the FP will be removed.Please check today by
> end of day [3:00pm your time] and issue should be resolved.Let me know if
> anything else is required, or if we can proceed with  closure of this SR.*
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> Time to time some good news, we need it !
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> Regards,
> Paolo.
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> On 1 Dec 2016, at 17:46, Paolo Barbato <paolo.barbato@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> <locky.txt>
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> Hi Nick,
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> this is the complete log...CheckPoint is working on this.
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> Regards,
> Paolo.
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> Il giorno 01/dic/2016, alle ore 17.03, Nick Østergaard ha scritto:
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> Paolo,
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> Does that firewall software of yours not provide any technical info about
> this? Like filenames or byte sequences or similar?
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> Den 01/12/2016 16.41 skrev "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
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>> Paolo,
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>> This might be a false positive.  We've seen this in the past.  Would one
>> of our windows package devs please verify the windows installer binaries
>> on the kicad download page are still valid?
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>> In the future, please post your questions to the developers mailing list.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Wayne
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>> On 12/1/2016 7:56 AM, Paolo Barbato wrote:
>> > Dear devolopers,
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>> > I’m in charge fro internet security at Consorzio RFX laboratpry.
>> >
>> > We’ve blocked, using ChcekPoint firewall, a download attempt of an
>> >  internal user of kicad from your official link
>> > http://kicad-pcb.org/download/windows/ .
>> > Compromised version are 4.0.4 and 4.0.3  both 64 and 32 bits that seems
>> > have exploited by locky ransomware.
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>> > Please check, and let me know.
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> Paolo Barbato
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> Consorzio RFX <http://www.igi.cnr.it/>
> corso Stati Uniti,4
> 35127 Padova - Italy
> Network Administrator
> phone: +39 049 8295097 <+39%20049%20829%205097> fax: +39 049 8700718
> <+39%20049%20870%200718>
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> Paolo Barbato
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> Consorzio RFX
> <https://www.igi.cnr.it>corso Stati Uniti,4
>
> 35127 Padova - Italy
> Network Administrator
> phone: +39 049 8295097 <+39%20049%20829%205097> fax: +39 049 8700718
> <+39%20049%20870%200718>
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