NEW RANSOMWARE LINKED TO NOTPETYA SWEEPS RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

JUST FOUR MONTHS ago, a massive ransomware attack known as NotPetya ripped through Ukraine, Russia, and some multinational companies, infecting thousands of networks and eventually causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Now, an apparent aftershock of that attack is reverberating through the region, as a new variant of that code locks up hundreds of machines and handicaps infrastructure.