Why the Wannacry outbreak was so bad (opens in new tab)

On May 12, 2017, ransomware named Wannacry started spreading across the globe, infecting and encrypting Windows systems by exploiting CVE-2017-0144, a flaw that a two-month-old Microsoft patch, MS17-010, had fixed. It quickly became one of the biggest Windows outbreaks ever. The post Why the Wannacry outbreak was so bad appeared first on The Silicon Underground.