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Rob Wainwright, the Europol director, fears that Monday if there are many computers at companies are started, as many computers worldwide infected with ransomware or gijzelsoftware. He said that Sunday against the English television channel ITV.
According to the first figures of Europol has been since Friday, when the attack began, sure to 200,000 computers in 150 different countries affected by the virus. According to Wainwright, has almost none of the ransom paid for hijacked computers and were primarily systems of companies infected.
The virus has, according to Wainwright, so fast to go take it by that the program is a rarely seen combination of ransomware and a worm. He said Sunday that the number of infected computers already increased: “I am worried about the people that tomorrow their work is not well-protected computer. It could lead to the same scene as Friday,” said Wainwright.