Computer users around the world were scrambling to reboot systems after a tidal wave of ransomware cyberattacks spread from Ukraine and Russia across Europe to the United States and then on to Asia. (AFP Photo\/DAMIEN MEYER) <\/p>\n
Brussels (AFP) - NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned the alliance must step up its defence against cyberattacks, saying they could potentially trigger their Article 5 mutual defence commitment. <\/p>\n
Computer users around the world were scrambling Wednesday to reboot systems after a tidal wave of ransomware cyberattacks spread from Ukraine and Russia across Europe to the United States and then on to Asia. <\/p>\n
It seemed to be very similar to the WannaCry ransomware which hit more than 200,000 users in more than 150 countries last month. <\/p>\n
Stoltenberg said the \"attack in May and this week just underlines the importance of strengthening our cyber defences and that is what we are doing.\" <\/p>\n
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\"We exercise more, we share best practices and technology and we also work more and more closely with all allies,\" he told reporters ahead of a NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday at which cyber-security will be a key talking point. <\/p>\n
Stoltenberg recalled that NATO leaders had agreed last year that a cyber attack could be considered a threat sufficiently serious to warrant invoking the alliance's 'all for one, one for all' security guarantee. <\/p>\n
They also made cyber a NATO domain -- on a par with the traditional air, sea and land arms to become part of overall alliance planning and resource allocation. <\/p>\n
NATO was also helping Ukraine, the country first hit by Tuesday's cyberattack, with its online defences, Stoltenberg said. <\/p>\n
In the NATO context, the greatest fear is that another state would attack an ally's networks to undermine key industrial and civil society infrastructure without firing a shot. <\/p>\n
In the event, however, it seems non-state actors may be able to cause just as much mayhem. <\/p>\n
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