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by eddyg 3324 days ago
ends with "gwea.com". Big difference.
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At the risk of losing more karma... isn't the domain registered to stop this gwea.com itself?

The hacker, though, didn’t register the gwea.com domain name. On Friday morning, a 22-year-old UK security researcher known online as MalwareTech noticed the address in WannaCry’s code and found that it was still available. “I saw it wasn’t registered and thought, ‘I think I’ll have that,’” he says. He purchased it at NameCheap.com for $10.69, and [...] [1]

If it is, it seems to contradict the whois record.

[1]: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...

The domain is not gwea.com, it ends in gwea.com. Two paragraphs above your quote in the article:

> a dot-com address consisting of a long string of gobbledygook letters and numbers ending in “gwea.com”

jstoja mentions it above: iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com

My bad, I had misunderstood it completely. Thanks.
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