Mehul Srivastava reports:
A mysterious and unidentified group of hackers has sought to paralyse the computer networks of almost 5,000 victims across the US and Europe, in one of the most widespread ransomware attacks on record. The hacking unit, initially nicknamed the Nevada Group by security researchers, began a series of attacks that started around three weeks ago by exploiting an easily fixed vulnerability in a piece of code that is ubiquitous in cloud servers. The Financial Times contacted several victims identified from the publicly available information. Most declined to comment, saying they had been asked by law enforcement to do so. They include universities in the US and Hungary, shipping and construction groups in Italy and manufacturers in Germany.
Read more at FT.