Sour Patch: NotPetya’s Cleanup Cost to Mondelez Tops $80 million

The NotPetya outbreak in June 2017 — delivered via compromised updates to Ukrainian accounting software M.E.Doc and propagated as a worm using EternalBlue and EternalRomance — acted as a destructive wiper disguised as ransomware and infected over a million systems across multiple countries. Mondelez reported $84 million in incremental recovery costs and estimated total impacts near $180 million (reducing 2017 net revenue by 0.4%), while other major firms such as FedEx and Maersk also reported substantial losses.