WannaCry — The largest ransom-ware infection in History

[[MPGH]AVGN]

On Friday 12th May 2017, a ransom-ware called WannaCry infecting and spreading machines in 70+ countries — using nation state grade offensive capabilities released last month by the ShadowBrowkers — including telco companies like Telefonica in Spain, or healthcare authority like the NHS in England — and the number of infected machines keeps growing.
This ransom-ware supports 28 different languages, encrypts 179 different type of files and requires victims to wire money ($300-$600) over bitcoins in order to get the control back of their machines.

[Predator]

Fucking exit scammers are evolving...

[Silent]

On Friday 12th May 2017, a ransom-ware called WannaCry infecting and spreading machines in 70+ countries — using nation state grade offensive capabilities released last month by the ShadowBrowkers — including telco companies like Telefonica in Spain, or healthcare authority like the NHS in England — and the number of infected machines keeps growing.
This ransom-ware supports 28 different languages, encrypts 179 different type of files and requires victims to wire money ($300-$600) over bitcoins in order to get the control back of their machines.

99+ countries*

[CarsonWentz]

So we fucked or nah?

[Rob]

There's already been a big thread on this here as well as how to protect yourself

[Boombox]

https://www.mpgh.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1258340