How One Simple Trick Just Put Out That Huge Ransomware Fire

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, May 15, 2017

In less than 24 hours, the WannaCry ransomware borrowed from leaked NSA exploits to spread across at least 75,000 PCs. But, for now, the ransomware outbreak has been curtailed.

That’s because a U.K.-based researcher going by the name of MalwareTech shut the operation down, albeit by a stroke of good fortune.

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