Hi and welcome to Sabarism's malicious life. I'm Ren Levy. It was

May 12th, 2017 and something strange was happening online.

In the early morning hours, a new ransomware started spreading in Asia.

Without anyone clicking on a fishing link or opening a malicious email,

thousands of computers were suddenly hijacked.

Oops, your files have been encrypted,

reads an ominous message on every compromised computer's screen.

Pay $300 in seven days or lose your files forever.

From Asia, the mailware quickly spreads to 150 countries all across the globe.

More than 200,000 computers were attacked within hours.

Wannacry made its debut on the world stage.

A ransomware warm hybrid, it somehow duplicated itself and spread from one computer to another within seconds.

Among the organizations hit hard by the malware were FedEx, Telephonica, Renault and the Russian government.

In the United Kingdom, a particularly vulnerable target was hit hard, the National Health Service,

or NHS.

The UK's National Health health providers servers were infected, which paralyzed several

major hospitals in the London metropolitan area. Hundreds of primary care organizations and GP practices were affected.

Whole computers were encrypted, appointments and surgeries had to be postponed.

An unprecedented attack on the fragile NHS.

As the independent put it back then, quote, large-scale hack plunges hospitals across England

into chaos."

One doctor said to Sky News that,

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