New Cyberattack Spreads in Europe, Russia and U.S

NOTE: There is a thread on this attack already, but I wanted a better title to help people get it. Be very careful with email attachments, blind links and links on social media accounts. This one is a nasty one and will lock you up bigtime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/technology/ransomware-hackers.html

Computer systems from Russia to the United States were victims of an international cyberattack on Tuesday in a hacking that bore similarities to a recent one that crippled tens of thousands of machines worldwide.

As reports of the attack spread quickly, the Ukrainian government said that several of its ministries, radiation monitoring at the Chernobyl nuclear facility, local banks and metro systems had been affected. A number of companies — including the Danish shipping giant Maersk; Rosneft, the Russian energy giant; Saint-Gobain, the French construction materials company; and WPP, the British advertising agency — also said they had been targeted.

And in the first confirmed cases in the United States, Merck, the drug giant, confirmed that its global computer networks had been hit, as did DLA Piper, the multinational law firm.

It remains unclear who is behind this most recent cyberattack. Like the previous WannaCry attacks in May, Tuesday’s hack takes over computers and demands digital ransom to regain control.