The WannaCry ransomware worm that first struck organizations around the world on May 12 continues to be a source of risk as new variants emerge and the underlying exploit is now freely available in the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework. Security firm Symantec reported that as of May 15, it had blocked approximately  22 million WannaCry infection attempts across 300,000 endpoints.

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