The WannaCry ransomware has infected about 216,000 endpoints in over 150 countries. Ransomware is packaged with a worm designed to target a server messaging flaw in Windows. Russia, Ukraine, Taiwan, India, Brazil, Thailand, Romania, Philippines, Armenia and Pakistan are the most-hit countries. Investigators are still hunting for “patient zero” to identify how the attacks were first launched and trace them back to a source to trace them and trace the attacks first launched. The ransomware does not appear to spread via email or phishing attacks, British security researcher Kevin Beaumont says.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/blogs/teardown-wannacry-ransomware-p-2476