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In its annual National Exposure Index report, Rapid7 found 160 million computers, IoT devices and servers with open ports that should not be exposed to the public network.

WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within...

There is plenty of blame to go around for the WannaCry ransomware that spread throughout the Internet earlier this month, disrupting work at hospitals, factories, businesses, and universities....

Last month WannaCry ransomware hit more than 300,000 PCs across the world within just 72 hours by using its self-spreading capabilities to infect vulnerable Windows PCs, particularly those using...

An Insider's View of the Attack: How it was Created, Implemented and Rapidly Spread WorldwideUnlike other ransomware families, Wanna continues to encrypt victim files following any name changes,...

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a number of programming errors in the WannaCry ransomware code that put file recovery within reach of sysadmins.

Avoid the Cyber Attribution Follies: Stay Skeptical; Don't Fear the BogeymanA number of media reports have recently suggested there's a "link" between WannaCry and the Lazarus hacking group,...

New data released by security company Kryptos Logic reveals that China and the United States were affected the most by the WannaCry outbreak over the past weeks. read more

The recent WannaCry outbreak is still a mystery. We know what (ransomware), and how (a Windows vulnerability on unsupported or unpatched systems); but we don't know who or why. We're not short of...
