Cyber genius halts global ransomware attack with shocking solution

A malicious cyber attack traveled swiftly across the globe Friday, causing massive disruptions and locking users out of their systems unless they paid $300 in BitCoin, has been effectively curbed after one cyber expert found a creative solution to outsmart the hackers… and it cost him less than $11.

More than 75,000 computers in 99 countries were compromised by the cyber attack, with a heavy concentration in the UK, U.S., China, Russia, Spain, Italy and Taiwan.

The mastermind who figured out how to outsmart the architects of the nasty “WannaCry” Internet worm is a British researcher known by the Twitter handle @MalwareTechBlog.

The cyber genius reportedly discovered a “kill switch” embedded in the malware by its creators, in case things went awry.

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