Less than 24 hours after it first emerged, it has been called the first global, coordinated ransomware attack using hacking tools developed by the NSA, crippling over a dozen hospitals across the UK, mass transit around Europe, car factories in France and the UK, universitied in China, corporations in the US, banks in Russia and countless other mission-critical infrastructure.
Here is what plays out every 60 seconds online in 2017...
Source: AllAccess.com
As Lori Lewis concludes, "It's a serious traffic jam out there."
The question - as we noted last night - is, how much of it is 'real'?
As the massive ransomware attacks spreads across the globe, Intel's interactive map below tracks every malware event worldwide in real-time...
(click image for link to interactive real-time map)
And below (click image for real-time updates) is the WCRYPT exploit specific events... Over 76,000 now...
The Digital Revolution Is A Catastrophe
Why did the US National Security Agency develop a hacking tool to install malware? Why is the US Security agency so incompetent that it could not prevent itself from being hacked and the tool stolen and used against 12 countries?
The digital revolution is proving to be a nightmare. The digital revolution has destroyed privacy and has made all information and all persons insecure.
Swiss cybersecurity firm Modzero has discovered that 28 models of HP laptops running the "MicTray64.exe" audio driver on Windows 7 and 10 systems - a little over 20% of all laptops - have been spying on users via a 'keylogger,' a program which records every keystroke made on the device. This means that passwords for banking, email accounts, and private communications on affected laptops are being stored locally - which "leads to a high risk of leaking sensitive user input."