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The virus-extortionist Petya attacked Russian and Ukrainian companies

By Prempal Singh 0 Comment June 29, 2017

Ukraine was faced with the most powerful in its history cyberattack. In just a few hours completely or partially paralyzed the work of thousands of computers of public and private companies – from Boryspil International Airport to major banks and gas stations.

The cause was a virus panic-bleeder DOS / Petya.A. Ukrainian security forces have traditionally been accused of going on Russia, the organization which also suffered from exposure to the virus.

Work a large part of Ukrainian companies was paralyzed on Tuesday afternoon.

“Today at 11.00 against our country started a massive cyber attack using a modified version of a Ukraine« wannacry »virus -« cryptolocker », – advisor to Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko said.

It is reported that users have come letters in Russian and Ukrainian languages, which opened out of curiosity inexperienced users.

“In the code of the virus has been laid launch date on June 27 at 11.00”, – he said. The load on the hard disk has increased sharply, and then restart the computer, and the screen displays the requirement to pay for $ 300 unlocked.

Attack provoked DOS / Petya.A virus that attacked computers masquerading as software products of Microsoft.

The virus is an analog WannaCry, hit users’ computers about six months ago.

everything stopped

Hacker attack affected the work of the Ukrainian business. Massively stopped work sites of state bodies – the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, Ukrainian Railways, the State Employment Center, Boryspil airport. Users are not able to obtain the necessary documents to them, see the online scoreboard flights, although sending planes and trains was carried out in the usual way.

“Today, the airport and several major public sector enterprises extraordinary situation – spam attack. Our IT-services work together to try to resolve the situation. In connection with the extraordinary situation possible flight delays, “- said General Director of the airport Borispol Paul Ryabikin.

Private business has suffered no less. For example, make an appointment with specialists in the country’s best-known private clinic – “Boris” – it was impossible. As well as send or receive a parcel through a branch of the “New Mail”. Or withdraw cash and make payments in the majority of Ukrainian banks. The exception was Privatbank, whose offices are open normally.

Major fuel companies have lost the opportunity to carry out the calculation of electricity supplied.

Buy gasoline or diesel fuel at many gas stations can be intermittent (suffered network system Wog, Okko, KLO).

Most restaurants and shops accept only cash. Down I left channel 24, the problems observed in the channel ICTV, correspondent.net site, and others.

Hacker attack in Ukraine has affected the official site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant,

which has become unavailable. But this did not affect the work of the technological systems of the station, which, according to the State Agency of Ukraine for the management zone of alienation, were transferred to the manual mode. radiation monitoring system partly out of order.

Ukrainian business has not yet calculated the losses that they brought DOS / Petya.A virus. But we can assume that they will amount to millions of hryvnia.

Russian trace

Ukrainian officials believe that Petya.A virus got into Ukraine from Russia.

On the “Russian trace” said Secretary of the National Security Council, Alexander Turchinov, as well as the Speaker of the SBU Elena Gitlyanskaya.

“The war in cyberspace, sows fear and terror among the millions of users of personal computers and causing direct damage to property due to the destabilization of the operation of the business and government agencies – is part of an overall strategy for a hybrid war against Ukraine, the Russian Empire” – Anton Gerashchenko said.

According to his information, the Security Service of cybersecurity experts and the National Police are working on key infrastructure projects in Ukraine to quickly restore the operation of computer networks. The whole process will take several days, said Gerashchenko.

But Ukrainian experts on cyber security officials doubt the words. “The attack comes from several places, so it is practically impossible to know the customer”, – said the head of a large Ukrainian IT-companies.

From virus affected Russian companies, including “Rosneft” and “Bashneft”, and according to Reuters data, the virus has spread in England and India.

panic observed in Ukraine said that the public and private business is not ready to confront large-scale hacker attacks. Ukrainian employees of offices, despite numerous warnings, massively open letter and follow links from unknown senders.

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