Companies have a lot to fear from Russia’s digital warmongering
Insurance against state-sponsored hacks is becoming harder to find
NOTPETYA IS A nasty name for the world’s vilest computer attack. Embedded in an innocuous piece of tax software, the virus, which the American government said had the Kremlin’s fingerprints all over it, struck Ukraine in June 2017, knocking out federal agencies, transport systems, cash machines—even the radiation monitors at Chernobyl, the husk of a nuclear-power station.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Cyber-rattling”
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