29-06-2017 21:29 via 10tv.com

Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion

The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but something more sinister: an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, security experts say."There may be a more nefarious motive behind the attack," Gavin O'Gorman, an investigator with U.S. antivirus firm Symantec, said in a blog post . "Perhaps this attack was never intended to make money (but) rather to simply disrupt a large number of Ukrainian organizations."The rog
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