This was an interesting story and it could be happening right now as you’re reading this. The world’s biggest cyber attack struck us and hit at least 150 countries, 300,000 machines. According to the EU, “The number of infected computers has not increased as expected, which is a success.” A lot of major global companies were hit, for example, Fedex has experienced interference with some of their windows caused by malware. The people that got struck had to pay a ransom to get all of their encrypted files back. People in Germany train stations are seeing hacked ticket machines showing wrong times. Also, if an office worker opens an infected PDF attached to an email, soon everyone in the office could be under attack. That was "unheard of six months ago," Levy said. Previous attacks targeted one machine at time.
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Great Story Jerry. Its nice that it didn't rise as expected!
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