Danish logistics and container transport firm Maersk’s global ransomware attack has affected its control terminal in India which is located at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai. As per a government statement, the private terminal assigned to Maersk has been affected by a ransomware attack, and not its domestic terminals. This means that the cyber attack was not targeted at the Mumbai port, but merely a consequence of hackers targeting Maersk’s global operations. A Reuter report pointed out that Maersk’scomputer systems were hit by the global Petya cyber attack, delaying shipments and order processing systems. Around 76 terminals run by the conglomerate at different ports in the country have been affected including in the United States, India, Spain and the Netherlands. Petya ransomware largely swept Europe this week and as per media reports, the ransomware Petya is more than holding ransom and collecting money. Apart from this, UK’s WPP Group, an advertising and publishing company were also affected by the global cyber attack and seems like the company’s India unit has also been affected. Employees at WPP owns offices in India— GroupM, Maxus, Mindshare, Mediacom, MEC, JWT India, O&M, and Genesis BM—have received warning messages today asking them to turn off all Windows operated computers, according to Economic Times. Petya is more than a ransomware: Researchers According to a Securelist report, Petya encrypts files on a computer and asks the user to pay $300 in ransom to receive decrypt keys. It was originally discovered in May 2016 by Kaspersky Lab.…
