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WannaCry: Ransomware Outbreak

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WannaCry: The Kill Switch (CLIP)

World War EJun 20 '17

While WannaCry is bad, it could have been a whole lot worse. One clever and tenacious cybersecurity researcher began reverse-engineering the hack. That person found an unregistered domain name buried deep in the code…. and smartly bought it for about $10 bucks. That action triggered the kill switch.

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