Five years on from WannaCry -- what have we learned?

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the notorious WannaCry ransomware attack which hit a number of large organizations around the world and was many people's first encounter with ransomware. Five years on then, what have we learned from the attack and what long-term effect has it had on the industry? Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at WithSecure says: The WannaCry malware epidemic of spring 2017 was unique in the field of information security. This historic attack was one of the biggest of all time and destroyed hundreds of thousands of computers, almost exclusively targeting large corporations. Companies all over the… [Continue Reading]