On June 27, 2017, a cyberattack pummeled Ukraine, using the same software code stolen from the NSA, disabling an estimated 10 percent of all computers in that country.11 The attack was later attributed by the United States, the United Kingdom, and five other governments to Russia.12 Security experts dubbed it NotPetya because it shared code with a known ransomware named after the armed satellite Petya, which was part of the Soviet Union’s fictional GoldenEye weapon in the 1995 James Bond movie of the same name.13 That weapon could knock out electronic communications across a thirty-mile
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