The National Bank of Ukraine reported on a successful reflection of all attempts of cyber attacks on the information system of the NBU. About it the press service of the Ukrainian Central Bank said in the backdrop of a massive hacker attack with the help of the virus-the extortioner WannaCry that began on 12 may and has affected more than 100 thousands of organizations in 150 countries.
The press service of the national Bank of Ukraine, the Agency “Interfax” reported that all attempts of cyber attacks successfully neytralizuya the teams respond to cyber incidents of the NBU. “The national Bank of Ukraine always pays special attention to protecting banking infrastructure from fraud in cyberspace and adheres to the highest standards in the field of information protection and cyber security,” said the Central Bank.
The NBU said that to combat cyber attacks the national Bank of Ukraine cooperates with CERT-UA State service of special communication and information protection of Ukraine and the relevant departments of the security Service of Ukraine (SBU). “The national Bank of Ukraine constantly develops and updates guidelines for cyber security in the banking system of Ukraine and regularly inform banks”, – said the press service.
CERT-UA (Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine; the Team of computer threat response in Ukraine) is a specialized unit of the State service of special communication and information protection of Ukraine (state service of special communication of Ukraine, controlled by the President of the country).
Earlier on Monday it became known that as a result of international attacks with the help of the virus WannaCry extortionists managed to obtain from the user a ransom totaling about 42 thousand dollars (23.5 per bitcoin). The attackers did not withdraw these funds from the accounts, probably knowing about the surveillance of law enforcement.
It was also reported that the attack by the virus-the extortioner has undergone a major Japanese manufacturing company Hitachi electronics. Was struck by its e-mail servers, resulting in the employees of the conglomerate having problems with sending and receiving e-mail.
They also found that the perpetrators of the cyber attacks managed to get around the restriction, accidentally discovered by an anonymous programmer and allowing for time to stop the rapid spread of the virus-the extortioner WannaCry. The virus can bypass domain called iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com when receiving the response from which the program stopped an attack. Informed to stop the virus, the programmer only had to register this domain.
In this may 13, Politico reported that international attack hackers, extortionists used the modified program of the us national security Agency (NSA), which in April resulted in the loss has hit the Internet. The group published its hackers called themselves the Shadow Brokers. Who now uses malicious code is unclear. About using the NSA code is also written in his Twitter ex-employee of the Agency Edward Snowden.
According to Europol, the attack using the virus-the extortioner has spread at least 150 countries, affecting more than 200 thousand people and organizations. It is assumed that the cyber attack was not government, but a criminal group.
Reports of attacks began to come the evening of may 12. The virus has blocked your personal data on computers, and for unlocking the attackers demanded a ransom of $ 300 in bitcoins. If the user does not pay within three days, the amount threatened to double. If the victim of a hacker attack do not provide payment within seven days, the virus program threatens to remove all the files.
In the greatest degree of contamination have been made to Russia, according to “Kaspersky Lab”. The target of criminals have become the computers of the Ministry of internal Affairs, Sberbank, the Ministry of health, MegaFon, Russian Railways and the Central Bank. In the UK due to mass infection of personal computers was disrupted 40 hospitals.
WannaCry virus – ransomware attacking only PC on Windows operating system. Getting on the victim’s computer, it encrypts all personal data. When trying to view the file the user sees on the screen of the requirement to pay a certain amount of money with the condition that allegedly the attacker will send instructions for unlocking.