Massive Ransomware Attack To Computers Around 100 Countries

                       Ransomware a new virus has been affected to the computers . Nearly hundred countries, including India, were hit by a massive cyber attack  was first reported from Sweden, Britain and France, Europe, Latin America and parts of Asia were hit particularly hard, although in the United States, FedEx also reported falling prey to the malware. 

Ransomware is an idea first developed more than 20 years ago, and reverses the usual form of hacking – where the threat comes from others having access to data ; ransomware threat is that nobody can access your data, including you .

 The ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects a computer and restricts users' access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock it. It demands users pay US $300 worth of Cryptocurrency Bitcoin to retrieve their files, though it warns that the payment will be raised after a certain amount of time. The malware spreads through email . 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.

This virus  apparently uses vulnerability in the SMB(Server Message Block ) protocol ,in the Windows file sharing protocol to spread from one infected machine to other potential victims. So it has the potential to very quickly go from infection to take control of other machines.

 Hackers exploiting malicious software stolen from the National Security Agency executed damaging cyber attacks on Friday that hit dozens of countries worldwide, forcing Britain’s public health system to send patients away, freezing computers at Russia’s Interior Ministry and wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers elsewhere.

 “Patients have been inconvenienced,” she conceded, “but no patient data has been accessed and the NHS is brilliantly managing through this .”The lack of access to patient data doesn’t apply just to the hackers, of course; NHS staff couldn’t get at it, either, because many NHS hospitals and GP practices had been hit by “ransomware”. 

The British hospitals hit by this latest attack, which weaponized a flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system revealed in February, are hopelessly outgunned. They’re running Windows XP, an operating system first released in September 2001, and which Microsoft itself gave up supporting in 2014; it has been kept on life support by extra payments to the company, but the Department of Health stopped making those in 2015.

The attacks amounted to an audacious global blackmail attempt spread by the internet and underscored the vulnerabilities of the digital age.More than a dozen hospitals in England and major companies, including FedEx and Spain's largest telecom, were targeted Friday.

"This is not targeted at the NHS," British Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters. "It's an international attack, and a number of countries and organizations have been affected.

" We are not aware of any evidence that patient data has been compromised . Of course we have set the National Cyber Security Center and they are able to work with the NHS organization concerned to ensure that they are supported and patient's safety is protected" said by Theresa May the PM.

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