According to Taiwan media reports, on the evening of 3rd August, the largest iPhone chip supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.(TSMC), was infected by WannaCry ransomware, and the production line was completely shut down. It is rumored that TSMC was attacked by hackers, but TSMC officially confirmed the incident that some production equipment was infected by WannaCry ransomware. The company has controlled the scope of the virus infection, and 80% of the company’s “impacted tools” had been fixed on Sunday.

As the key supplier of Apple’s mobile phone core processor, TSMC got a lot of attention after the incident was exposed. The third quarter is the peak season for mobile phone production each year, thus, the incident may postpone Apple’s by shipments. Apple’s third-quarter revenue is also expected to drop by about 3%. It may even affect Apple’s new mobile phone release.

WannaCry ransomware has infected more than 200,000 machines in 150 countries, causing billions of dollars in damages and grinding global business to a halt. Fortunately, our do not have to worry. They can be totally immune to this kind of ransomware without patching as long as 360 Total Security is installed.

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TSMC’s president, Wei Zhejia has made it clear that the variant of WannaCry ransomware is the main cause of the disaster. After TSMC’s production equipment was attacked, all kinds of documents and data were encrypted.

In fact, the ransomware has been one of the most important threats to cybersecurity. In May … Read more