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WannaCry Ransomware Attack and Real-Time Cyber Threat Map

Includes Ethical Hacking, Cybersecurity, Social Engineering and related fields
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"WannaCry (or WannaCrypt) is a ransomware program targeting Microsoft Windows operating system. On Friday, 12 May 2017, a large cyber-attack using it was launched, infecting more than 230,000 computers in 150 countries, demanding ransom payments in the cryptocurrency bitcoin in 28 languages. The attack spreads by multiple methods, including phishing emails and on unpatched systems as a computer worm. The attack has been described by Europol as unprecedented in scale.

The attack affected Telefónica and several other large companies in Spain, as well as parts of Britain's National Health Service (NHS), FedEx, Deutsche Bahn and LATAM Airlines. Other targets in at least 99 countries were also reported to have been attacked around the same time.

WannaCry is believed to use the EternalBlue exploit, which was developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to attack computers running Microsoft Windows operating systems." Read more...

Cyber warfare is an escalating issue as depicted by cyber threat real-time map below, and it is very central when it comes to information security.

The attached document can however help you to adapt better practices and try as much as possible to secure your systems against various forms of cyber attacks.
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