Australian police blame WannaCry for spoiling 8,000 traffic cam tickets
Australian police have had to suspend upward of 8,000 tickets for speeding and running red lights after learning the cameras that caught the acts had become infected with a virus. The Victoria, Australia police blamed the WannaCry virus, which spread through Windows computers last month, locking down systems and demanding a ransom be paid before they could be used again.
It’s not entirely clear that WannaCry is the right diagnosis here — police said the virus spread over USB and caused the cameras to continually reboot, neither of which are features WannaCry is known for. But either way, a virus infected nearly 100 of the state’s 280 road cameras, which was enough for police to doubt the integrity of all of them.