Global Cyberattack: What We Know and Don’t Know<br />• ESET and several other cybersecurity companies have identified at least one other exploit used in the attack known as PsExec, which takes advantage of a single computer<br />that has not been updated with the latest software in a network to spread infections by looking for — and using — administrative credentials.<br />• Several private companies have confirmed that they were hit by the attack, including the American pharmaceutical giant Merck, the Danish shipping company AP Moller-Maersk, the British advertising firm WPP, the French multinational Saint-Gobain<br />and the Russian steel, mining and oil companies Evraz and Rosneft.<br />By SHEERA FRENKELJUNE 27, 2017<br />A quickly spreading ransomware attack is hitting countries across the world including France, Russia, Spain, Ukraine<br />and the United States, just weeks after a ransomware attack known as WannaCry.<br />• Symantec, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity firm, confirmed<br />that the ransomware was infecting computers through at least one exploit, or vulnerability to computer systems, known as Eternal Blue.<br />• Cybersecurity researchers first called the new ransomware attack Petya, as it bore similarities to a ransomware strain known by<br />that name, which was first reported by Kasperksy in March 2016.<br />Perhaps you are busy looking to recover your files but don’t waste your time.”<br />• Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity firm based in Moscow, reported that about 2,000 computer systems had been affected by the new ransomware.
