BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: More than 45,000 computers in hospitals, IT organizations, railway station networks, ATMs and even universities across 74 countries have been severely affected by the WannaCrypt ransomware worm also popularly called Wcry. This is the biggest ransomware attack in recorded history, which may have left scores of systems in India vulnerable to an attack too.An official of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-IN) told ET that so far the agency has not received any reports about the impact in India. "'Our researchers are on the job and trying to figure out if there has been any impact in India," the official said. CERT has already issued an advisory alerting people about the spreading ransomware. "Most government departments don't have specific different OS for its operations and the same risk factor applies to government too.

Source: Economic Times May 13, 2017 17:26 UTC