“We are urgently responding to reports of another major ransomware attack on businesses in Europe,” Rob Wainwright, executive director of Europol, Europe’s police agency, said on Twitter. At least nine European countries had been targeted in the latest attack, said Dan Smith, an information security researcher at Radware, a cybersecurity firm. Called “Eternal Blue,” the tool was among dozens leaked online last April by a group known as the Shadow Brokers. If the victim pays, the authors of the Petya ransomware, who call themselves “Janus Cybercrime Solutions,” get a cut of the payment. That distribution model means that pinning down the individuals responsible for Tuesday’s attack could be difficult, if near impossible.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2017 14:49 UTC