They Thought They Were Safe… Until This Happened

A "harmless" software update took down shipping ports, hospitals, and a nuclear plant's radiation monitors — in under 45 seconds per network. This is the true story of NotPetya, the $10 billion cyberattack that started as fake ransomware and ended up being classified as an act of war. In June 2017, an accounting software update in Ukraine triggered the most destructive cyberattack in history. Maersk lost 49,000 laptops in 7 minutes. Merck had to borrow vaccines from the US government. And the only reason Maersk survived was one server that happened to be powered off during a blackout in Lagos, Nigeria. This isn't ransomware. It's a wiper — built using leaked NSA tools — and it was never meant to be stopped. #NotPetya #Cyberattack #TrueCrime #Documentary #Hacking