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The White House has officially joined the UK government in blaming Russia for last year’s NotPetya attacks. Shortly after the UK publicly accused Kremlin of unleashing the wiper worm on various organizations around the globe, particularly in Ukraine, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued the administration’s formal statement. She called the NotPetya attacks […]
(Reuters) –The White House on Thursday blamed Russia for the devastating ‘NotPetya’ cyberattack last year, joining the British government in condemning Moscow for unleashing a virus that crippled parts of Ukraine’s infrastructure and damaged computers in countries across the globe. The attack launched in June 2017 by the Russian military “spread worldwide, causing billions of […]
After its negligence on Russian election hacking, the Trump administration is taking Russia’s global malware attack more seriously. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a8610a5f6b8e47907fd8935/master/pass/NotPetya-Russia-RTX4NQB6.jpg
Enlarge / White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement today declaring that Russia would face “international consequences” for releasing the NotPetya malware worm. (credit: Getty Images) Following form with a finding by the government of the United Kingdom, the White House issued a statement formally blaming Russia’s military for unleashing NotPetya, the destructive […]
“BadRabbit,” linked to the authors of NotPetya, hits hundreds of victims, including subways, an airport, and media firms. https://media.wired.com/photos/59ef8effedf8c416cd6cb259/master/pass/RabbitScope-HP-97234268.jpg Feed: All Latest
Published time: 5 Jul, 2017 22:56 The alleged hackers behind a ransomware attack that crippled computer systems across the globe last month have surfaced online, demanding over $ 260,000 in exchange for a private key that they claim can decrypt any data affected by the attack. The post appeared on the Tor-only announcement service DeepPaste, […]
Enlarge (credit: National Police of Ukraine) The third-party software updater used to seed last week’s NotPetya worm that shut down computers around the world was compromised more than a month before the outbreak. This is yet another sign the attack was carefully planned and executed. Researchers from antivirus provider Eset, in a blog post published […]
Enlarge / A computer screen displaying Eternalromance, one of the NSA exploits used in Tuesday’s NotPetya outbreak. (credit: Matthew Hickey) Update: This post was revised throughout to reflect changes F-Secure made to Thursday’s blog post. The company now says that the NotPetya component was probably completed in February, and assuming that timeline is correct, it didn’t […]
The companies and agencies hit by a cyberattack in the Ukraine, Russia, the US, parts of Europe, Asia and Australia might never be able to recover their data. See, some security researchers, including Kaspersky Lab, believe that the malware that invaded those computers was only masquerading as ransomware in order to lure the media into […]
