BEIJING: The number of computers in China under attack from ransomware dropped from Monday to Tuesday to 213,000 per hour on average from more than twice that at 520,000 per hour from Saturday to Sunday, according to data released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Centre of China.
The drop is mainly because users of Windows operating systems have begun to install patches developed by Microsoft after the global attack over the weekend, said Zhang Shuai, an engineer from the centre on Wednesday, although risk remains high.
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