WannaCry Attack

The WannaCry attack worldwide attacked by the WannaCry ransomware cryptoworm, which targeted computers running the Microsoft OS by encrypting data. Demanding ransom payments in the BitCoin. It propagated through EternalBlue, an exploit discovered by the United States NSA (National Security Agency) for older Windows systems. EternalBlue was stolen and leaked by a group called the Shadow Brokers a few months prior to the attack. WannaCry also took advantage of installing a backdoor onto infected systems.

The attack was stopped within a few days of its discovery due to emergency patches released by Microsoft.The attack was estimated to have affected more than 200,000 computers across 150 countries, with total damages ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of $.