Ukrainian police have arrested an individual accused of spreading the Petya malware, used in a cyberattack that knocked thousands of companies offline earlier this year, according to ZDNet, a business technology news website.
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Hrytsak during a Tuesday briefing in Kyiv said that cybercriminals who had set up and executed cyberattacks on computer networks across Ukraine pursued goals completely different from profiting from unlocking computers blocked by malware.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 21% in January-June 2017, to 45.7 billion cubic meters year-over-year, according to the press service of the new gas transport system operator PJSC Trunk Gas Pipelines of Ukraine.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has established the involvement of the Russian special services in a large-scale cyber attack with the use of the Petya.A ransomware in order to destabilize the socio-political situation in Ukraine, according to SBU's website.
Most cases of infection of computers with Petya.A virus were recorded in Ukraine, according to the data of ESET, the developer of anti-virus software.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has proposed to tighten the requirements for the banks' information security and developed a corresponding draft resolution, according to the NBU's website.
Investigators still don't know who launched the latest global cyber attack, but the attackers' strategy suggests money was not the cyber attackers motive, the United Nations' top cybercrime official said on June 29, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
A large-scale cyber attack on corporate and public networks is stopped, according to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Almost 150 strategically important and security sensitive enterprises in Ukraine, including nuclear power plants, have not been affected by recent cyber attacks caused by ransomware dubbed Petya.A, according to the Ukrainian government's press service.