Security News > 2018 > February > UK government officially blames Russia for NotPetya attack
2018-02-15 20:22
The UK government has officially attributed the June 2017 NotPetya cyber attack to the Russian government. The statement is backed by an assessment of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, which has found that the Russian military was “almost certainly” responsible for it. The NotPetya attack “The NotPetya attack saw a malicious data encryption tool inserted into a legitimate a piece of software used by most of Ukraine’s financial and government institutions,” the NCSC noted. … More →
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