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Ukrainian Software Firm Suspected of Spreading Global Virus, Servers Seized

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-a-victim-himself dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Police in Ukraine have seized the servers of one of the largest accounting software firms in the country, after it was suspected that a malware virus which hit dozens of global enterprises last week had spread via its malicious update.

As part of an investigation into one of the largest recent cyber attacks, the servers of Ukraine's most popular accounting software, M.E.Doc were seized by Ukrainian police Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing the head of Ukraine's Cyber Police, Sergey Demedyuk.

Cyber Police spokeswoman Yulia Kvitko confirmed an ongoing investigation into M.E.Doc's offices.

Ukrainian intelligence officials and security firms experts believe initial infections, which affected thousands of computers worldwide, might have been spread via the accounting firm's updates, Reuters reports.

While it is still unclear who inserted a vulnerability into the M.E.Doc program, the Kiev-based firm whose software is used by around 80 percent of companies in Ukraine is under investigation itself and will face criminal charges, AP reported citing Demedyuk.

M.E.Doc's employees had dismissed repeated warnings about the security of their information technology infrastructure, Demedyuk said in an interview with the news agency.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/395305-ukrainian-firm-servers-seized-cyber-attack/

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by r1348 on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:43PM (4 children)

    by r1348 (5988) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @01:43PM (#535168)

    We were told it was Putin's fault!
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    WHO DO WE HATE NOW?!?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:14PM (#535189)

    Polskis are always telling people to watch out for the Ukies.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:16PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:16PM (#535191) Homepage Journal

    Still quite possible. It wouldn't be at all out of character for corrupt company officers to take money for something nefarious. I don't have a horse in the race though so my give a shit level is pretty well bottomed out.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:25PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday July 05 2017, @02:25PM (#535194) Journal

    Just because mainstream west media tries to assign all kinds of blame on Putin. Doesn't mean that Russian government would not do anything nefarious. But to trust mainstream media to inform on the matter is worthless.

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by EvilSS on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:54PM

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 05 2017, @03:54PM (#535231)
    He still might be. The malware was distributed from their servers but the servers were known vulnerable for ages. Anyone could have put it there.