A global ransomware attack on Tuesday hit computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukraine’s international airport and other places in Europe (Representational Images) A global ransomware attack on Tuesday hit computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukraine’s international airport and other places in Europe (Representational Images)A global ransomware attack on Tuesday hit computers at Russia’s biggest oil company, Ukraine’s international airport, global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said a cyberattack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world. WPPBritain’s WPP, the world’s biggest advertising company, said computer systems within several of its agencies had been hit by a suspected cyber attack. EVRAZRussian steelmaker Evraz said its information systems had been hit by a cyber attack but its output was not affected. NORWAYA ransomware cyber attack is taking place in Norway and is affecting an unnamed international company, the Nordic country’s national security authority.

Source: Indian Express June 27, 2017 17:01 UTC