More than 45,000 ransomware attacks have been detected across the globe - BNO News

"More than 45,000 ransomware attacks have been detected across 74 countries over the last 12 hours, Kaspersky Lab reports," said the BNO News in a recent report.

Reporting on the recent cyber attacks, The Telegraph quoted Jakub Kroustek, a malware researcher at AVG Avast, saying that Russia, Ukraine, and Taiwan were the worst hit by the attacks by malware called WannaCry or WannaCry 2.

• Cyber attacks reportedly hit companies as well as government agencies.