LONDON (AP) May 13 — Cybersecurity officials in Britain have applauded a young researcher for helping halt the global ransomware cyberattack.
In a post on its website, Britain’s National Cyber Security Center said that by registering a domain name that unexpectedly stopped the spread of the malware, the anonymous Britain-based cyber specialist, known as Malware Tech, had prevented further infections and “already resulted in preventing over 100,000 potential infections.”
The researcher tweeted Saturday that he initially didn’t know that his actions would stop the malware.