I was reading the news section of nu.nl and I read that the homeland Security Service of Ukraine, the SBU said that Russian security services were behind the major cyber attack last week.
According to the SBU, the same hackers attrackt the power net in Ukrain in 2016.
the Russian goal of the attack
The goal of the latest attack would have been to destroy data and create panic. Ukraine was heavily hit by the attack.
The malware spread among other things through an update for accounting software from Ukraine.
Petya also met other countries, including the Netherlands and Russia. In the Netherlands, the systems of APM Terminals were intercepted after infection with the Petya malware.
infected computers
According to Microsoft, less than 20,000 computers are infected with the malware. The WannaCry attack in May estimated that more than 10 times more systems were infected within one day.
But the only question still remains, why would Russia create and send malware around the globe. If they only want to attract the Ukraine.
What do you think. Leave it in a comment.