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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by thefreeman on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @01:14PM (#14647251)
That only happens after the initial infection into the network. Notice that it says it scans the "local network".
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by jsizzle on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @09:12AM (#14653745)
This is minutiae at this point, but it scans the "local" /24. My assumption is that it scans the /24 for any interface available, so if a machine is infected with a public IP, it will start scanning machines on the public Internet. Not to mention other variations may decide to scan more aggressively.
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