| Photo Credit: AFPmore-inWhile no major incident of the worldwide ransomware attack has been reported from India so far, Gulshan Rai, the Cyber Security Chief in the PMO, said a better impact assessment would be possible only on Monday when offices open. Over 70 countries have been hit by the cyber attack. “We have been checking hundreds of systems since we were alerted to this cyber attack. Cyber security solution provider Symantec said large number of organizations, particularly in Europe, were impacted. On the other hand Russia-based cyber security firm Kaspersky said it has recorded more than 45,000 attacks of the WannaCry ransomware in 74 countries around the world, mostly in Russia.

Source: The Hindu May 13, 2017 16:04 UTC