(Reuters)Moscow/Kiev, June 27 (Reuters): A ransomware attack hit computers across the world today, taking out servers at Russia's biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks, and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms. Cyber security experts said those behind the attack appeared to have exploited the same type of hacking tool used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers in May before a British researcher created a kill-switch. "It's like WannaCry all over again," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure. India's cyber security agency has yet to receive any reports of the attack, its boss said today, after a Swiss government agency identified India as one of the main victims. Last 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.

Source: The Telegraph June 27, 2017 21:11 UTC