KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s national cybercrime unit seized servers belonging to a small company at the center of a global outbreak of malicious software after “new activity” was detected there, the service said in a statement early Wednesday.
The company has been the focus of intense attention from authorities and cybersecurity researchers since it was identified as the patient zero of the outbreak, which crippled computers at several multinational firms and knocked out cash machines, gas stations and bank branches in Ukraine.
Kaspersky Lab researcher Aleks Gostev said on Twitter that some of the digital currency had been sent to text …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
