SINGAPORE/HANOI: The WannaCry ransomware worm that hobbled big institutions and businesses at the weekend, including FedEx and Britain's National Health Service, also indiscriminately caught many smaller victims across Asia, from hoteliers to Chinese students.
When MediaOnline, a firm that operates digital displays in Singapore shopping malls, noticed its displays were showing the ransomware's pop-up window on Saturday, it sent engineers to two malls, director Dennis So told Reuters.
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