[thedoc (OP)]

Users are locked out of their machines and all their data is irreversibly encrypted unless they pay a large fee...
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[smart]

That's strange, ransomware (WannaCry) is a computer virus that become famous very recently. How come we didn't saw this happen if we knew about it in 2016??

[chris]

That's the Naked Scientists for you - we're always trying to see over the horizon with the programmes we make...

[smart]

I suppose Microsoft should have released a patch a year ago assuming they were aware of the security issue...