SBU has accused Russia of cyber attack by a virus-the extortioner Petya
Uncategorized July 1, 2017
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The security service of Ukraine declaredthat have established the involvement of Russian secret services to attack the virus-the extortioner Petya, who began to spread on June 27 and caused damage to businesses and public agencies in different countries. Ukraine was affected the most computers, but the damage suffered and the company in Russia. Previously, the involvement of the Russian Federation said the postal and telecommunications of Ukraine.
SBU made its findings through cooperation with international anti-virus companies. From these data it follows that the extortion money was only a cover for the main, the larger goal of cyber attacks. “This is evidenced by the absence of a real mechanism for the appropriation of funds, the primitiveness of which only confirms the view that the enrichment was not the target of the attack,” says the Ukrainian special services.
As pointed out by the BBC Russian service experts noticed earlier that the virus-cipher Petya was not originally meant restoration of the affected files, suggests that money was not the target of hackers.
In addition, the SBU concludes that “the attacks involved the same hacker group that in December 2016, attacked the financial system, objects of transport and energy of Ukraine with the use of “TeleBots” and “Blackenergy”. And this, in turn, “evidence of involvement in the attack of the Russian special services,” the message quoted by RIA “Novosti”.
As stated, the main purpose of the virus was the destruction of important data and disruption of public and private institutions of Ukraine.
A member of the Duma Committee on information policy Vadim Denikin (LDPR) in comments to RIA called the statement of the SBU fake: “They are looking for in Russia any trick, do any dirty trick to somehow all be blamed on the Russian Federation”.
The spread of a new virus-the extortioner began in Ukraine. According to preliminary data, 75% of transmission Petya.A took place in this country. Hackers attacked the Borispol airport, “Ukrpochta” “an Ukrtelecom”, “Ukrenergo”, the Ministry of infrastructure, the media and the government of Ukraine.
In Russia, some large companies had also been hacked. Among them are Rosneft, Bashneft, Evraz, Mondelеz International, Mars and Nivea in Vitro. Evaluation ESET virus lab, Russia accounted for only 0.8% infection of the total.