Hello and welcome to Malicious Life. My name is Ron Levin. Friday, May 12th, 2017 was a bad day for quite a lot of people.

In over 150 countries, businessmen, doctors, bankers and technicians turned on their computers,

and instead of their regular desktop, they got a big red window with a big white lock drone on it and the words, oops, your files have been encrypted.

And indeed the files on the computer were unreachable.

Under the lock was a timer and a notice demanding

$300 in Bitcoin. If the sum was not paid before the timer ran down, the files on the computer would be lost forever.

The name of the ransomware was Wanna Cry. Welcome to the Watch Guards Daily Security Bite, I'm Corey Nokhiner.

Today's story is a possible ransom worm called W. Cry.

The big news today by far that's resounding around the world is a new piece of

Ransomware called W Cry. Well first things first let me explain what

ransomware is. Ransomware is a

ransomware is a virus that once it infects a computer it locks it via encryption.

After a video power, but it's get nad loss wider with ransomware and IT security.

Firus won a cry at the Sabua program ransomware. security. Wanna Crye's widespread cyber attack on more than 200,000 computers all over the world

made headlines in the media and brought the issue of ransomware into the public eye.

But only a few people remember that almost 30 years ago, in December 1989,

a few thousand people woke up in the UK and several other European countries

to discover a very similar scenario.

Upon turning on their PCs, the following message appeared on the screen.

Please wait 30 minutes during this operation.

Warning, do not turn off the computer because you will damage the files on the hard disk drive.

After a tense 30 minutes, the users received another worrying message.

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