The US pharmaceutical company Merck revealed that the massive NotPetya cyberattack has disrupted its worldwide operations. The news was part of the Mercks financial results announcement for the second quarter of 2017. Ransomware was designed to look like ransomware but was wiper malware designed for sabotage purpose. The company said it had still been working on restoring its manufacturing operations: Merck has largely restored its packaging operations and has partially restored its formulation operations, but not yet producing bulk product. The name of Merck was circulating on the internet shortly after the attack.”]
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