WannaCry ransomware might attack 1,3 million computer systems
On Friday, the world experienced the wrath of a wellcoordinated ransomware attack, known as WannaCrypt. The attack caused Britain’s NHS to cancel surgeries, a wide array of Russian and Chinese private and public institutions to be crippled most of the day, and the rest of the world to recoil in shock, CNN reported.
Businesses must brace for further cyber attacks this week on a potentially “significant scale,” British intelligence officials warned on Sunday, according to the Financial Times. Current data show more than 1.3 million computer systems are still vulnerable to infection by WannaCry, which has paralysed hospitals, disrupted transport networks and immobilised businesses, Financial Times reported.
The scale of the incident prompted global co-ordination from governments and law enforcement, and US President Donald Trump ordered emergency White House meetings to ID the perpetrators and the threat. 200,000 computers across 150 countries are known to have been infected in the first wave of cyber attack, Europol said.
