Ransomware

Governments and computer experts girded on May 15 for a possible worsening of the global cyberattack that has hit more than 150 countries, as Microsoft warned against stockpiling vulnerabilities like the one at the heart of the crisis.

Friday’s cyber attack crippled the NHS and hit more than 200,000 victims in 150 countries.
But as people return to work on Monday and turn on their computers, the head of the EU’s police agency and cyber experts said the number of victims could rise.

Yesterday's attack by the new WannaCry ransomware which has infected thousands of computers around the world continues, experts from the Combating Organized Crime Chief Directorate caution.

Yesterday's massive hacker attack has not affected Bulgarian institutions.

The “accidental hero” who halted the global spread of an unprecedented ransomware attack by registering a garbled domain name hidden in the malware has warned the attack could be rebooted.

A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting Britain's health system and global shipper FedEx.

A ransomware virus is spreading aggressively around the globe, with over 100,000 computers in 99 countries having been targeted, according to the latest data. The virus infects computer files and then demands bitcoins to unblock them.

An extensive cyberattack struck computers across a wide swath of Europe and Asia on Friday, and strained the public health system in Britain, where doctors were blocked from patient files and emergency rooms were forced to divert patients. Attacks were being reported in Britain and 11 other countries, including Turkey, Vietnam, the Philippines, Japan, with the majority of affected computers in

A total of 737 cyber incidents were registered at the websites of central and local government authorities and other institutions in Bulgaria last year, according to the National Computer Security Incidents Response Team (CERT Bulgaria).

The number of ransomware incidents on computers in Turkey has increased by 27 percent in 2014 compared to 2013, a Russia-based antivirus company has warned.