Originally Posted by
jotunn
That's not true... most RansomWare/viruses need "retarded" users interaction to get into the local network - like opening any "invoice" e-mail attachment.
In normal cases your local network is behind NAT/firewall, so there is no way to use SMB as an attack vector from Internet.
In some cases SMBv1 can help to spread RansomWare inside your local network - but attack is usually limited to shared folders. SMB is not the main problem, the problem is with sharing whole drive without password at all, with write access to everyone.
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