The SBU Security Service of Ukraine together with the prosecutor's office have blocked the spread of malicious software designed for remote, secret access to information stored on mobile devices, according to the SBU's press center.
Hackers have compromised the official website of Ukrainian accounting software developer Crystal Finance Millennium to distribute a new variant of the malicious Zeus banking trojan, according to International Business Times (IBT).
The creation of WannaCry and Lurk malware was supervised by the Russian FSB, according to Konstantin Kozlovsky, a hacker earlier arrested in the Lurk case, the Russian independent news network Dozhd reports.
Hackers behind the NotPetya virus that hit Ukraine and spread around the world in June probably also designed malware called BadRabbit used in a more recent strike, a Ukrainian presidency official said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
Ukrainian cyber security firm ISSP said on Tuesday it may have detected a new computer virus distribution campaign, after security services said Ukraine could face cyber attacks similar to those which knocked out global systems in June, Reuters reports.
Ukraine's central bank has warned state-owned and private banks across the country that a new malware campaign targeting financial services firms across the country may be a prelude to another assault of Not-Petya proportions, BankInfoSecurity reports.
The New York Times in its recent article claimed a Ukrainian hacker known under the alias “Profexer” turned himself in earlier this year to the Ukrainian law enforcers, bound to become the first live witness to testify before the FBI in the DNC Russian hack case, according to Current Time.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) warns of a possible new cyberattack on computer networks of Ukrainian companies, as reported by the agency’s press service.
The hacker, known only by his online alias “Profexer,” is reportedly the first known living witness in the FBI probe into the DNC hack after he turned himself in to the Ukrainian police earlier this year, The New York Times reported.