Internet Outage Atlas · Platform and software cascades

NotPetya Global Outage

Software supply chain · June 2017

NotPetya spread through a trusted software-update channel and crippled shipping, logistics, hospitals, and enterprise networks around the world.

How it spread

It remains one of the clearest demonstrations of software supply chains acting like outage multipliers.

A trusted update path can spread failure faster than any one-off breach or local outage.
The lesson on the record
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