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BBC: UK blames Russia for ‘malicious’ NotPetya cyber-attack

By BBC.

Published Feb. 15, 2018. Updated Feb. 15 at 12:39 pm

(FILES) This file photo taken on July 21, 2014 shows an employee of Equinix data center checking servers on July 21, 2014 in Pantin, a suburb north of Paris in the Seine-Saint-Denis department. The world's biggest ransomware attack levelled off in Europe on May 15, 2017 hanks to a pushback by cyber security officials after causing havoc in 150 countries, as Microsoft urged governments to heed the "wake-up call".

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The Russian military was directly behind a “malicious” cyber-attack on Ukraine last summer that spread across Europe, British ministers have said.

The UK government has taken the unusual step of publicly accusing Russia of June’s NotPetya ransomware attack.