White House: Russian Military Behind NotPetya Attacks

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Publicated : 22/11/2024   Category : security


White House: Russian Military Behind NotPetya Attacks


Trump administration statement comes on the heels of UK government calling out Russia for the cyberattacks that spread through Europe and elsewhere.



The Trump administration today confirmed what UK officials already 
said today
 officially: that Russias military was behind the crippling NotPetya ransomware campaign aimed at destabilizing Ukraine and that spread to other nations.
In a
statement
from the White House Press Secretarys office, the administration said:
In June 2017, the Russian military launched the most destructive and costly cyber-attack in history.
The attack, dubbed NotPetya, quickly spread worldwide, causing billions of dollars in damage across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. It was part of the Kremlins ongoing effort to destabilize Ukraine and demonstrates ever more clearly Russias involvement in the ongoing conflict. This was also a reckless and indiscriminate cyber-attack that will be met with international consequences.
NotPetya
posed as a ransomware attack, but instead was aimed at
destroying data
: it modified the Master Boot Record of the infected machine such that the data couldnt be recovered. Mainly Ukrainian businesses and critical infrastructure providers were hit, but also infected were organizations in Russia, Poland, Denmark, the Netherlands, India, Italy, the UK, Germany, France, Spain, and the US.
Among those hit were Russias top oil company Rosneft, Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, Russian metals manufacturer Evraz, Ukraines Boryspyl Airport, US pharmaceutical company Merck, and radiation detection systems at Chernobyl.
 
 
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