A major cyber-attack has strikes large companies across World and Europe. Attack has caused serious disruption at companies including advertising multinational WPP, France’s Saint-Gobain, Russian steel, mining and oil firms Evraz and Rosneft, and the Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk.
The attack has even affected operations at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which has switched to manual radiation monitoring as a result of the attack. Infections have also been reported in more isolated devices like point-of-sale terminals and ATMs. Ukraine’s government, banks, state electricity grid, telephone companies and even metro particularly badly affected.
Experts said the attack seemed consistent with ransom-ware described as a variant of a virus known as Petya or Petrwrap.
An attack by WannaCry or WannaCrypt ransomware last month affected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries, with the UK’s national health service, Spanish phone giant Telefónica and German state railways among those hardest hit.
The central bank said an “unknown virus” was to blame for the latest attacks. “As a result of these cyber-attacks, these banks are having difficulties with client services and carrying out banking operations,” it said in a statement.
“The central bank is confident that the banking infrastructure’s defence against cyberfraud is properly set up and attempted cyber-attacks on banks’ IT systems will be neutralised,” it said.
Ukraine has blamed Russia for previous cyber-ttacks, including one on its power grid at the end of 2015 that left part of western Ukraine temporarily without electricity.Ukraine itself seems to be responding to the attack with good humor. Shortly after news of the attack broke, the country’s official Twitter account responded by urging citizens not to panic
The attack has even affected operations at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which has switched to manual radiation monitoring as a result of the attack. Infections have also been reported in more isolated devices like point-of-sale terminals and ATMs. Ukraine’s government, banks, state electricity grid, telephone companies and even metro particularly badly affected.
An attack by WannaCry or WannaCrypt ransomware last month affected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries, with the UK’s national health service, Spanish phone giant Telefónica and German state railways among those hardest hit.
The central bank said an “unknown virus” was to blame for the latest attacks. “As a result of these cyber-attacks, these banks are having difficulties with client services and carrying out banking operations,” it said in a statement.
“The central bank is confident that the banking infrastructure’s defence against cyberfraud is properly set up and attempted cyber-attacks on banks’ IT systems will be neutralised,” it said.
Ukraine has blamed Russia for previous cyber-ttacks, including one on its power grid at the end of 2015 that left part of western Ukraine temporarily without electricity.Ukraine itself seems to be responding to the attack with good humor. Shortly after news of the attack broke, the country’s official Twitter account responded by urging citizens not to panic
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