The computer code used in the recent global ransomware attack was written so it avoided computers using Russian and related languages, new report finds.
Trustwave said the ransomware"avoids systems that have default languages from what was the USSR region. This includes Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Tajik, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uzbek, Tatar, Romanian, Russian Moldova, Syriac, and Syriac Arabic."
Colonial operates the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. and was forced shut down all operations for days while trying to get back online, resulting in gas shortages across the country.
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