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White House Blames Russian Military For NotPetya Global Cyber Attack

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 15th, 2018

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White House Blames Russian Military For NotPetya Global Cyber Attack

After months of conducting its due diligence, the U.S. government on Thursday attributed Russia’s military with a cyber-attack last summer that masqueraded as ransomware but in reality was meant to wipe clean infected computers worldwide and ended up costing companies and organizations billions of dollars in damage.The White House press office issued a statement attributing the June 2017 NotPetya attack to the Russian military, saying it was “the most destructive and costly cyber-attack in history.”The White House statement followed a…

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