More cyber attacks could be in the pipeline after the global havoc caused by the Wannacry ransom-ware.
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PARIS – A cyberattack that caused indiscriminate economic damage around the world was apparently designed to create maximum havoc in Russia’s neighbor and adversary Ukraine, security researchers said.
While the rogue software used in the attack was configured as extortionate “ransomware,” that may have just been a ruse.
“It is clear that this was targeted indiscriminately at Ukrainian businesses, and the Ukrainian government,” Jake Williams, president of the security firm Rendition Infosec and a former member of the U.S. National Security Agency’s elite cyberwarfare group, told …read more
Source: Chiangrai Times
