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Ransomware: Effected new bug all over the world



On Friday May 12 the world was struck by an unprecedented ransomware (a kind of virus)cyberattack infecting, at the time of writing, over 230,000 computer systems across 150 countries


Within hours of the ransomware being launched, a cybersecurity specialist who blogs under the name "MalwareTechBlog


As expected, in the intervening days, several new variants of the ransomware appeared. Most featured similar kill-switch domains that were quickly blocked, but reports do indicate that new variants with no kill-switch have started appearing. This dramatic attack on the world's computers is by no means over, with organizations bracing for another wave of infections, but how did this even happen in the first place?

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