A ransomware attack hit computers across the world on Tuesday, taking out servers at Russia’s biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks, and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms. “It’s like WannaCry all over again,” said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure. Last’s month’s fast-spreading WannaCry ransomware attack was crippled after a 22-year-old British security researcher Marcus Hutchins created a so-called kill-switch that experts hailed as the decisive step in slowing the attack. According to the state security agency, the emails contained infected Word documents or PDF files as attachments. The Russian central bank said there were isolated cases of lenders’ IT systems being infected by the cyber attack.

Source: Hindustan Times June 27, 2017 14:03 UTC