Businesses must brace for further cyber attacks this week on a potentially “significant scale”, British intelligence officials warned yesterday, less than 48 hours after the debilitating WannaCry software virus swept across the world.
Data show more than 1.3m computer systems are still vulnerable to infection by WannaCry, which paralysed hospitals, disrupted transport networks and immobilised businesses, according to cyber security analysts.
So far, 200,000 computers across 150 countries are known to have been infected in the first wave of the cyber attack, Europol said yesterday. “The recent attack is at an unprecedented level and will require a complex international investigation to identify the culprits,” Europe’s police agency added.