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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: 2) by zocalo on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:10PM
Some are - there are a few MSM outlets in the Google search results I linked in my OP (NBC, Reuters, MSN and Daily Mail are all in the first 3 pages of results) - and a lot of the western tech press has picked up on it in those results too. Presumably the rest didn't really think this phase of the investigation wasn't worth of news, and they may be right. Ultimately it boils down to Ukrainian law enforcement have seized a bunch of servers that might help them uncover those responsible, something that would happen pretty much anywhere in the world when a potential malware distribution vector or C&C server can be identified and the relevent authorities convinced to get involved. Issues between Russia and Ukraine aside, there's nothing particularly interesting to those not into the tech issues there - it's just a routine investigation they probably incorrectly assume happens with every single cybercrime.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!