BERLIN: More than a dozen German firms were hit by a computer virus that infected their Ukrainian subsidiaries and caused thousands of euros of damage by stalling production processes, the head of the German federal cyber agency told Reuters on June 29.
Arne Schoenbohm, president of the BSI cyber agency, declined to say exactly how many German firms were affected, but said it was a "low two-digit number", and all the known cases thus far were infected through a Ukrainian subsidiary.
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