New Cyberattack Spreads From Russia to Britain
A number of companies — including Rosneft, the Russian energy giant; Saint-Gobain, the French construction materials company;
and WPP, the British advertising agency — also said they had been targeted.
Computer experts were calling the computer virus “Petya,” and said
that it was similar to the WannaCry attack that spread like wildfire across much of Asia and Europe.
By MARK SCOTTJUNE 27, 2017
Computer systems from Russia to Britain were victims of an international cyberattack on Tuesday in a hack
that bore similarities to a recent one that crippled tens of thousands of machines worldwide.
Analysts have been warning that hackers are increasingly likely to use such ransomware attacks to gain
access to people’s computers, both in a bid to cause major global disruption and for financial gain.
As reports of the attack spread quickly, the Ukrainian government said
that several of its ministries, local banks and metro systems had been affected.
Like the previous WannaCry attacks in May, Tuesday’s hack takes over computers and demands digital ransom to regain control.
