Ransomware
Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts all your files and demands money for a decryption key. WannaCry Ransomware is one of the biggest Cyber Attacks in the world. It affected nearly 2 lakh computers (200,000 computers) in more than 150 countries.
The cyber attacks have largely targeted hospitals, academic institutions and large businesses like blue chip companies throughout the world, including in China, Japan, India and the U.K.
Russian’s way of preventing ransomware attack
While all IT professionals and Intelligence agencies are searching for prevention methods and decryption keys, Russia is done it in a unique way. The country ‘s top religious priest is blessing Rissian ministry computers with holy water to fight with WannaCry Ransomware. This new broke in Russian social media and now it going viral on the internet all over the world.
We just hope these priests don’t short any circuits and destroy the computers they’re meant to bless and protect by accidentally spilling holy water into sensitive parts of the electronic systems!
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