Certainly possible, but if it was spread with an ordinary phishing attack, I gotta wonder why all of these organizations got hit so hard in such a short timefra

Certainly possible, but if it was spread with an ordinary phishing attack, I gotta wonder why all of these organizations got hit so hard in such a short timeframe. We've had lots and lots of conventionally spread ransomware attacks go out, but I don't know of any that have had this kind of effect in this timeframe.