Food for thought from a writer for Activist Post.

Cyber Attacks Are The Perfect Trigger For A Stock Market Crash
Brandon Smith | Activist Post
May 17, 2017
http://www.activistpost.com/2017/05/cyber-attacks-perfect-trigger-stock-market-crash.html

It should be noted that the Ransomware attacks which struck systems around the world used “WannaCrypt,” derived from an NSA exploit called “Eternalblue.” This program was designed to specifically target Microsoft Windows machines, no doubt using vulnerabilities which Microsoft ENGINEERED into their own software.

Something else that is very interesting about Eternalblue — as CNN notes, similar exploits were used not long ago by the NSA to get backdoor access to financial data within the SWIFT banking system.

This begs the question — how much of the global banking system and global stock exchanges are open to attack with these same NSA exploits. I would suggest that ALL of them are.