RECENT CYBERATTACK HAD MANY TARGETS, SAYS TRANSIT AGENCY

Ontario transit agency Metrolinx said Wednesday it doesn’t believe it was specifically targeted in a recently thwarted cyberattack it claims came from North Korea. Anne Marie Aikins, a spokeswoman for the public transportation service in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, said it was hit with malware that circulated the globe with many potential victims. When Metrolinx first revealed the attack Tuesday, it said it was routed through Russia and didn’t compromise personal information Metrolinx stores or its bus or train operations systems. Ron Diebert, a global security expert and the director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, said malware “roams the internet like a common cold or flu virus,” but doesn’t always have a deliberate victim.