Hack attacks disabled 500,000 computers in Russia in 2017 – Security Council secretary

  20 February 2018    Read: 2197
Hack attacks disabled 500,000 computers in Russia in 2017 – Security Council secretary
Over 500,000 computers in Russia were disabled last year, many of them targeted during three major waves of ransomware infection, said the head of Russia’s National Security Council in a report on cybersecurity.

Computer networks belonging to the Russian Interior Ministry and companies Rosneft and Evraz were among those affected by the attacks, Nikolay Patrushev said.

 

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