New Cyberattack Spreads From Russia to Britain<br />A number of companies — including Rosneft, the Russian energy giant; Saint-Gobain, the French construction materials company;<br />and WPP, the British advertising agency — also said they had been targeted.<br />Computer experts were calling the computer virus “Petya,” and said<br />that it was similar to the WannaCry attack that spread like wildfire across much of Asia and Europe.<br />By MARK SCOTTJUNE 27, 2017<br />Computer systems from Russia to Britain were victims of an international cyberattack on Tuesday in a hack<br />that bore similarities to a recent one that crippled tens of thousands of machines worldwide.<br />Analysts have been warning that hackers are increasingly likely to use such ransomware attacks to gain<br />access to people’s computers, both in a bid to cause major global disruption and for financial gain.<br />As reports of the attack spread quickly, the Ukrainian government said<br />that several of its ministries, local banks and metro systems had been affected.<br />Like the previous WannaCry attacks in May, Tuesday’s hack takes over computers and demands digital ransom to regain control.
