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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:28:52 +0000 (UTC)
From: InfoSec News <alerts@...osecnews.org>
To: isn@...ts.infosecnews.org
Subject: [Newsletter/Marketing] [ISN] Ransomware: The key lesson Maersk
 learned from battling the NotPetya attack

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ransomware-the-key-lesson-maersk-learned-from-battling-the-notpetya-attack/

By Danny Palmer
ZDNet News
April 29, 2019

The extent of the cyberattack was so bad that it just didn't seem possible that 
something so destructive could have happened so quickly.

"I remember that morning – laptops were sporadically restarting and it didn't 
appear to be a cyberattack at the time but very quickly the true impact became 
apparent," said Lewis Woodcock, head of cybersecurity compliance at 
Moller-Maersk, the world's largest container shipping firm.

"The severity for me was really taken in when walking through the offices and 
seeing banks and banks of screens, all black. There was a moment of disbelief, 
initially, at the sheer ferocity and the speed and scale of the attack and the 
impact it had."

Speaking in a keynote session at CYBER UK 19 – a cybersecurity conference 
hosted by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – Woodcock was 
reliving the events of 27 June 2017 when the shipping and logistics giant 
Maersk was an unintended victim of NotPetya ransomware.

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