According to the company, according to Avast abnormal increased activity of kidnapping arrested Friday and have spread around the world is incredible. Within a few hours, it attacked more than 75,000 computers around the world.
According to Kaspersky Lab, said that many countries around the world affected by this problem, and the victims has steadily increased.
The kidnapping was known WanaCrypt0r 2.0 or WannaCry are believed to attack the computer systems of hospitals, National Health Service (NHS) in the UK and the national telecommunications company on behalf of Spain - Telefonica.
Britain and Spain is the first country which recognized the attack. In Spain, apart from many other telecommunications companies that are affected by this issue, according to Reuters.
Many countries have suffered up to 99 countries, including UK, US, China, Russia, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.
This is the 2nd generation of kidnapping, which first appeared in February and which was believed to have been attacked on a computer running Windows, it will change the file extension to ".WNCRY" (encrypted). It will then work with filing a consumer who needs $ 300 bitcoins to save your file. Wallpaper images of the kind of victims subject to change by showing the countdown period to pay back. If you do not pay, your files will be saved, forever.
Who is behind the attacks?According to The New York Times newspaper quoted security experts kidnapping was attacked weaknesses that have been discovered and developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). Program for BC (hacking tool) has been released by a group called the Shadow broker as it aims to attack computers running Windows, and the program uses to attack is called EternalBlue.NSA's program that was stolen by the Shadow brokers are trying to sell on the black market and then being put to download for free in April.Emergency response office of the computer (CamCERT) was informed about this,
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