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Ukraine has placed the blame for last week’s ransomware outbreak on Russia. The allegations came as multiple cybersecurity companies claimed there were links between the so-called NotPetya ransomware and hackers who previously targeted power providers and shut down electricity across the country, most infamously in December 2015 and then again on a smaller scale a year later.

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