KIEV: Ukraine claimed Wednesday that it had thwarted a fresh cyberattack that was to be carried out via a programme blamed for spreading a virus that caused disruption across the globe last week.
Interior minister Arsen Avakov said that Ukraine’s cyberpolice on Tuesday stopped a second wave of attacks from spreading via the M.E.Doc accounting software system and confiscated the servers of the company behind the programme.
“The peak of the attack was scheduled at 4 PM (1300 GMT),” Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
“Cyberpolice blocked the mailing and activation of the virus from the servers of the information system M.E.Doc,” …read more
Source: theSun
