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Kaspersky Names WannaCry ‘Vulnerability of the Year’

Kaspersky Lab names WannaCry ‘Vulnerability of the Year’ of the year. About 400,000 computers in 150 countries were affected in May by the “wannaCry” attack. About 0.07% of victims paid the ransom, leaving beneficiaries with chump change versus $120 million that could have been netted. The total cost of such disruption has been tabbed from hundreds of millions of dollars of dollars to $4 billion. The attack was indirectly aided by the US National Security Agency.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/abtv/vulnerability/kaspersky-names-wannacry-vulnerability-of-the-year/a/d-id/738932

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