Hospitals, schools, companies and governments around the world were assessing the damage Saturday after a massive cyberattack hit almost 100 hundred countries, infecting computers with malware that demanded ransom payments.
No one has yet claimed the worldwide attack, which experts believe used tools stolen from the National Security Agency.
U.S. companies were being warned to gird against the threat.
Antivirus provider Avast reported that at least 75,000 computers had been infected by the crippling malware and that the “WanaCrypt0r 2.0,” as it is called, ransomware had been detected in 99 countries with Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan the top targets. …read more
Source: National Newswatch
