Sometimes You Just Wanna Cry…
On May 12, 2017, a massive ransomware attack called WannaCryptor 2.0 or WannaCry hit thousands of networks in companies around the world. The cyber campaign, reached over 150 countries and wreaked havoc for offices, government and healthcare facilities. The WannaCry malware takes advantage of a bug within a Windows protocol. There was a patch for this that Microsoft put out in March of 2017, but many companies that had not updated their systems with the patch were victimized by this attack.