Section: US & Canada
Goal of latest mass cyberattack possibly not financial, say experts
A message demanding money on a computer hacked by a virus known as Petya. The Petya ransomware cyber attack hit computers of Russian and Ukrainian companies on June 27, 2017. (Donat SorokinTASS/Getty Images) PARIS – The dramatic data-scrambling attack that hit computers around the world Tuesday appears to be contained. But with the damage and...
5 Found Guilty for Murder of Russian Opposition Leader Nemtsov
A Moscow court has convicted five people for the murder of the Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov. Nemtsov was an opponent of the Russian government, and was especially critical of Moscow’s support for Ukrainian separatists. He was shot dead late at night in 2015 as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin. The official TASS news...
Cyberattack may not have been meant to get money
PARIS (AP) — The dramatic data-scrambling attack that hit computers around the world Tuesday appears to be contained. But with the damage and disruption still coming into focus, security experts worry the sudden explosion of malicious software may have been more sinister than a criminally minded shakedown of computer users. “There may be a more...
A strange new kind of ransomware is sweeping the internet
On Tuesday, Windows computers — first in Ukraine, later across Europe and the United States — began to show users a message that looked something like this: This is called ransomware, a relatively new form of malware that scrambles a victim’s files and then demands a payment to unscramble them. Attacks like this have become an increasingly...
Security Experts Weigh Motives Behind Worldwide Cyberattack
PARIS (AP) — The dramatic data-scrambling attack that hit computers around the world Tuesday appears to be contained. But with the damage and disruption still coming into focus, security experts worry the sudden explosion of malicious software may have been more sinister than a criminally minded shakedown of computer users. “There may be a more...
The Latest: Danish firm struggling to get engine parts
A small Danish ship repair company says the malicious software that froze computers around the globe has forced it to re-order engine parts because the track-and-trace parcel system with Dutch-based transport company TNT is down. Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, one of the global companies hardest hit by a malicious software that froze...
The Russian Trail in the Latest ‘Ransomware’ Attack
The developers of the exPetr virus didn’t want ransom: Their goal was to attack Ukrainian interests. …read more Source:...
The Morning Vertical, June 29, 2017
Your daily roundup. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO Defense Ministers Meet To Discuss Raising Spending, Afghanistan
Defense ministers from NATO’s 29 member states are meeting in Brussels on June 29 to discuss raising defense spending further and sending more troops to Afghanistan to help the government battle a resurgent Taliban. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Cyberattack: Shipping giant’s terminals slowly recovering
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, one of the global companies hardest hit by a malicious software that froze computers around the globe, said Thursday that most of its terminals are now operational, though some remain crippled. The shipping company is one of a number of major corporations and government agencies...
