NotPetya Infection Left Merck Short of Key HPV Vaccine

The article describes how the June NotPetya malware outbreak halted Merck's production of the Gardasil vaccine—forcing Merck to borrow doses from the CDC—and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales and revenue; it also summarizes similar major impacts to companies like FedEx, Mondelez, and Reckitt Benckiser, and notes that NotPetya spread by exploiting a Windows vulnerability and malicious updates to MeDocs.