Download or read book Wannacry Ransomware Attack: Learning the Essentials written by Dale Michelson and published by First Rank Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WannaCry and Ransomware are two versions of malicious software that has some caused problems for many companies in Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Taiwan and other countries. This has led to data and PCs locked up and held at ransom. Ransomware Revealed Ransomware was revealed to the public as vulnerability with regards to documents being leaked which is NSA-related. This was used to infect PCs and all its contents encrypted, after which hundreds of thousands of dollars was demanded to decrypt the files.