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On May 24, 2023, Microsoft announced the detection of a direct threat to critical infrastructure organizations in Guam and elsewhere in the United States. The alert attributed observed...

DOJ charged six Russian nationals for virus NotPetya that caused US economy 10 billion in damage including Merck and Co. pharmaceutical company that incurred 1.4 billion losses. Insurance denied coverage over war exclusion, NJ trial court verdict was exclusion did not apply.

The malware was supposed to resemble a hijacking program but did not have a ransom recovery mechanism. Instead of securing a ransom, the program was designed to incapacitate target devices, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center said