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Wired's NotPetya story resurfaces as a defining cyberattack account
Original: The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History (2018)
Andy Greenberg's 2018 Wired investigation into NotPetya is back in circulation. The piece recounts how the malware, unleashed through Ukrainian tax software in June 2017 and attributed to Russia's military, spread globally and caused roughly $10 billion in damage, crippling Maersk, Merck and pharmaceutical giant Merck's operations. Readers are revisiting the article as one of the definitive accounts of the most costly cyberattack in history.
Why now: The landmark Wired feature on NotPetya is being widely recirculated and discussed again.
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