LONDON: Cyber security experts rushed to restore systems on Saturday after an unprecedented global wave of cyber attacks that struck targets ranging from Russia’s banks to British hospitals and a French carmaker’s factories.
The hunt was on for the culprits behind the assault, which was being described as the biggest cyber ransom attack ever.
Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at the Helsinki-based cyber security company F-Secure, told AFP that the attack was “the biggest ransomware outbreak in history”, saying that 130,000 systems in more than 100 countries had been affected.
He said that Russia and India were hit particularly hard, in large part because the older Windows XP operating software is still widely used in the countries.
Source: Times of India