{"id":57327,"date":"2017-05-12T13:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/malware-described-in-leaked-nsa-documents-cripples-computers-worldwide"},"modified":"2017-05-12T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T20:42:47","slug":"malware-described-in-leaked-nsa-documents-cripples-computers-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/malware-described-in-leaked-nsa-documents-cripples-computers-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Malware, described in leaked NSA documents, cripples computers worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/malware-described-in-leaked-nsa-documents-cripples-computers-worldwide.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malicious software that blocks access to computers is spreading swiftly across the world, snarling critical systems in hospitals, telecommunications and corporate offices, apparently with the help of a software vulnerability originally discovered by the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The reports of the malware spread began in Britain, where the National Health Service (NHS) reported serious problems throughout Friday. But government officials and cybersecurity experts later described a far more extensive problem growing across the Internet and unbounded by national borders. Europe and Latin America were especially hard hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not targeted at the NHS,\u201d British Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters. \u201cIt\u2019s an international attack, and a number of countries and organizations have been affected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/hospitals-across-england-report-it-failure-amid-suspected-major-cyber-attack\/2017\/05\/12\/84e3dc5e-3723-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.ebf25d368060\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/hospitals-across-englan...f25d368060<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malicious software that blocks access to computers is spreading swiftly across the world, snarling critical systems in hospitals, telecommunications and corporate offices, apparently with the help of a software vulnerability originally discovered by the National Security Agency. The reports of the malware spread began in Britain, where the National Health Service (NHS) reported serious problems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,1490,1495,418,1412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government","category-health","category-internet","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}