A day after a massive ransomeware attack hit nearly 100 countries, including India, terrifying details were slowly emerging on Saturday as computers from hospitals in Britain to police stations in Andhra Pradesh were hacked into, keeping cyber security experts on tenterhooks. According to Director General of Police N Sambasiva Rao, systems using the Windows operating system were hit by the cyber attack. We haven’t seen anything like this since Conficker in 2008,” Amit Nath, Head of Asia Pacific-Corporate Business at cyber security firm F-Secure Corporation, told IANS. The ransomware infects victims by exploiting a Microsoft Windows vulnerability described and fixed in “Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010”. “It’s an international attack, and a number of countries and organisations have been affected.”Hacking group or groups were yet to claim responsibility for the attack.

Source: Hindustan Times May 13, 2017 13:18 UTC