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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/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday July 05 2017, @04:42PM (2 children)
Folks, they were saying this cyber is ransomware. It's not ransomware. It's a wiper. Like Hillary uses. It wipes your disk, like with a cloth or something. Deletes your cyber. Crooked Hillary loves to delete her EMAILS so she's always wiping. But honest folks don't do that. This cyber will delete your EMAILS, you don't want that. If you're honest you don't want that. Somebody wants to delete the cyber in Russia and Ukraine. It could be Hillary, she hates Russia. And she's always wiping the EMAILS. Not saying it was Hillary, don't get me wrong. But it could be. #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:32PM (1 child)
Folks, I'm replying to my own tweet. To tell you I misspoke. I mistyped. I don't know how to delete my tweet. But one of my cyber guys tells me this NotPetya probably isn't supposed to be a wiper. He says maybe it's just badly built. The builders are just trying to make some money -- cyber money -- but they didn't do a good job. So I'm sorry for what I typed about Crooked Hillary. She's a crook and she uses wipers, but this probably isn't supposed to be a wiper. But it turned out to be, 'accidentally'. Kaspersky says it's a wiper, F-Secure says no! So complicated, give me good old Steam OS! Sorry, Crooked Hillary! Sorry, NotPetya guys! #MAGA 🇺🇸
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday July 06 2017, @08:39AM
Bless you, Donald. You're really putting the work in here.