European governments and companies appeared early Monday to have avoided further fallout from a crippling global cyberattack, the police agency Europol said. “The number of victims appears not to have gone up and so far the situation seems stable in Europe, which is a success,” senior spokesman for Europol, Jan Op Gen Oorth told AFP. Europol executive director Rob Wainwright had warned on Sunday the situation could worsen when workers return to their offices on Monday after the weekend and logged on. “We’ve never seen anything like this,” the head of the European Union’s policing agency told Britain’s ITV television Sunday. Op Gen Oorth said Monday it was still “a bit early too say who is behind it, but we are working on a decrypting tool”.

Source: Hindustan Times May 15, 2017 08:48 UTC