A British researcher says he found a kill switch for the malware crippling computers worldwide

LONDON — As the world began to understand the dimensions of “Wanna Decrypt0r 2.0,” the ransomware that has crippled computers worldwide Friday, a British cybersecurity researcher was already several steps ahead. About 3 p.m. Eastern, the specialist with U.S. cybersecurity enterprise Kryptos Logic bought an unusually long and nonsensical domain name ending with “gwea.com.” The 22-year-old says he […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/05/13/a-british-researcher-says-he-found-a-kill-switch-for-the-malware-crippling-computers-worldwide/