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		</div><p>A new and highly virulent outbreak of malicious data-scrambling software appears to be causing mass disruption across Europe, hitting Ukraine especially hard.</p>
<p>Company and government officials reported serious intrusions at the Ukrainian power grid, banks and government offices, where one senior official posted a photo of a darkened computer screen and the words &#8220;the whole network is down&#8221;.</p>
<p>Ukraine&#8217;s prime minister said the cyberattack is &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; but &#8220;vital systems haven&#8217;t been affected&#8221;.</p>
<p>Volodymyr Groysman also said on Facebook that <i>&#8220;our IT experts are doing their job and protecting critical infrastructure&#8230; The attack will be repelled and the perpetrators will be tracked down.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Russia&#8217;s Rosneft oil company also reported falling victim to hacking, as did Danish shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;We are talking about a cyberattack,&#8221;</i> said Anders Rosendahl, a spokesman for the Copenhagen-based group.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It has affected all branches of our business, at home and abroad.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The number of companies and agencies reportedly affected by the ransomware campaign was piling up fast, and the electronic rampage appeared to be rapidly snowballing into a real-world world crisis.</p>
<p>Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblaad said container ship terminals in Rotterdam run by a unit of Maersk were also affected.</p>
<p>Rosneft said that the company narrowly avoided major damage.</p>
<p>&#8220;The hacking attack could have led to serious consequences but neither the oil production nor the processing has been affected thanks to the fact that the company has switched to a reserve control system,&#8221; the company said.</p>
<p>There is very little information about who might be behind the disruption at each specific company, but cybersecurity experts rapidly zeroed in on a form of ransomware, the name given to programs that hold data hostage by scrambling it until a payment is made.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;A massive ransomware campaign is currently unfolding worldwide,&#8221;</i> said Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender.</p>
<p>It said the malicious program appeared to be nearly identical to GoldenEye, one of a family of rogue programs that has been circulating for months.</p>
<p>It is not clear why the ransomware has suddenly become so much more potent.</p>
<p>The world is still recovering from a previous outbreak of ransomware, called WannaCry or WannaCrypt, which spread rapidly using digital break-in tools originally created by the US National Security Agency and recently leaked to the web.</p>
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