Washington // The hackers that launched a global cyberattack that brought chaos to banks, hospitals and corporations are expected to return and many computers remain at risk.Experts warned on Saturday that the hackers can still gain easy access to personal computers that lack a security update issued in March by Microsoft to fix the vulnerability in its Windows operating system. The company had labelled the patch as “critical.”
The attack which started on Friday was only stifled when a security researcher disabled a key mechanism used by the worm to spread.The malware, using a technique stolen from the US National Security …read more
Source: The National
