WannaCry: Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
As this is written, one of the largest cyberattacks in history is underway across the globe. 75,000 ransomware attacks in 99 countries are reported to be exploiting the Windows vulnerability “EternalBlue,” which Microsoft had released a patch for earlier this year. The exploit was made known as part of a trove of NSA spying tools leaked last month. …