Ukraine at the Risk of other Cyber Attack after 'NotPetya'

Last updated: January 24, 2024 Reading time: 2 minutes
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The immense cyber security attack causing global damage previous week, launched through Ukrainian software firms has not ended here. The firm has further confessed on Wednesday that hackers have accessed all the computers connected with its infected accounting software network.

With the passage of time, the depictions regarding the disruptive behavior of the hack are been continuously increasing. Some of the experts named this virus as “NotPetya” that has cost the lost to countless businesses and firms as well as various computers all around the world.

Ukrainian Presidential Administration official has testified that a number of computers affected in the attack is still unclear. Also, the state security service is figuring out the hacker’s intentions for the data collected during the attack.

Ukrainian police have released a video showing the men capturing the offices of software developer Intellect Service with assault rifles and combat fatigues. The video was released late on Tuesday when updates issued by M.E.Doc accounting software were founded by the cyber security researchers, which were said to have “back door”.

The M.E.Doc is installed in almost 1 million of the Ukrainian computers and are believed to be used in 80 percent of the companies. The interior minister Arsen Avakov has testified that a second cyber-attack has been halted by the police from servers hosting the software.