#WannaCry

A cyber security researcher widely credited with helping to neutralize the global "WannaCry" ransomware attack earlier this year has been arrested on unrelated hacking charges, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday.

PSNews-Two weeks before the first attack by WannaCry was detected, VNCERT had implemented preventive measures and instructions to handle these types of malicious codes.

PSNews – The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT) announced on May 19^th that “only a few computers” in Vietnam remain infected by Wannacry ransomware.

Vietnam is among the 99 countries that are under attack by a global ransomware program, while a local cyber security firm has warned that the virus could start being spread in the Southeast Asian country at the beginning of next week.