What is “WannaCry’? WannaCry is a ransomware attack that has (in)famously brought much of the world’s computers and servers to a complete standstill including critical systems such as UK’s healthcare network, Russia’s government systems and those of the Indian state, Andhra Pradesh. It makes use of an SMB (Server Message Block) vulnerability on Windows systems and spread rapidly across networks. How does it work and where did it originate? Many experts suspect that WannaCry aka WannaCrypt was…
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