Computer Researcher Combats Global Cyber Crisis With $10 And Some Change https://t.co/wmHsG0kjQ2 pic.twitter.com/0D8s6L96K2
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) May 14, 2017
...A separate tech expert, Darien Huss of the cybersecurity company Proofpoint, aptly noticed that the ransomware’s web address, which included a series of random numbers and letters, ended with “gwea.com.”...
The British security researcher, known online as MalwareTech, investigated and found out that the corrupted online address was still available to buy....
“I saw it [gwea.com] wasn’t registered and thought, ‘I think I’ll have that,'” MalwareTech told The Daily Beast, who purchased it on NameCheap.com, a domain name registrar service.
MalwareTech decided to direct the malware and infected computer systems toward a “sinkhole” server, which gives out false information and renders computers incapable of accessing the correct site.
