The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful about identifying the would-be culprits in putative cyberwars: Such claims can have unintended consequences, and can sometimes harm businesses.
In June 2017, a malware program dubbed ExPetr or NotPetya wreaked havoc at Danish shipping giant Maersk, US pharma titan Merck, Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft and a number of other big corporations, including Mondelez. NotPetya used an exploit known as EternalBlue, created by the US National Security Agency and leaked earlier in 2017.
By Leonid Bershidsky
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