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The untold story of NotPetya, the most devastating cyberattack in history
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- Authors
- Andy Greenberg, David Nield, Emily Dreyfuss, Issie Lapowsky, Lily Hay Newman, Brian Barrett
- Word count
- 6546 words
My favorite detail of the story:
Reads like a movie script. Exciting and impressive.
It's scary to see how interconnected everything is, how...easy to hack. That a single virus could affect hospitals, banks, fucking chernobyl cleanup crews*, is frightening.
Also, sysadmins are heroes for dealing with this stuff.
It really takes an attack like this to get executives to take IT security seriously. Hopefully this will serve as an example to get companies to invest in secure infrastructure.
This was a great article, thanks for posting.