: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Global cyberattack seems intent on havoc, not extortion


PARIS (AP) — A cyberattack that caused indiscriminate economic damage around the world was apparently designed to create maximum havoc in Russia’s neighbor and adversary Ukraine, security researchers said.

Computers were disabled at banks, government agencies, energy companies, supermarkets, railways and telecommunications providers.

Firms including Russia’s anti-virus Kaspersky Lab, said clues in the code indicate that the program’s authors would have been incapable of decrypting the data, further evidence that the ransom demands were a smoke screen.

The attack came the same day as the assassination of a senior Ukrainian military intelligence officer and a day before a national holiday celebrating the new …read more

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

World press about Ukraine

This website is created to observe information about Ukraine in the world media. More information about press.uaposition.com you can read here

World press category: terms & conditions