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Ukrainian police seize software company’s servers
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 … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukrainian minister: cyberattack cost my department millions
Ukraine’s infrastructure minister says that last week’s cyberattack has cost his department millions of dollars, an early hint of the damage dealt by the malicious software across the country’s economy. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Official: firm at center of cyberattack knew of problems
The small Ukrainian tax software company that is accused of being the patient zero of a damaging global cyberepidemic is under investigation and will face charges, the head of Ukraine’s … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ukraine alleges Russian security services behind cyberattack
Ukraine accused the Russian security services Saturday of planning and launching a massive cyberattack that locked up computers across the world. The Ukrainian security agency, known as the SBU, alleged … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Ports recover, but Ukraine still disrupted by cyberattack
Danish shipping giant A.P. Maersk-Moller says cargo terminals and port operations are returning to normal following a strikingly virulent and disruptive outbreak of malicious software. In a statement posted to … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion
The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Companies weigh cyberattack cost, with Ukraine hit hard
Companies and governments around the world on Wednesday counted the cost of a software epidemic that has disrupted ports, hospitals, and banks. Ukraine, which was hardest hit and where the … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
The Latest: Ukraine says cyberattack now contained
The Latest on a widespread cyberattack that is affecting companies and government systems (all times local): 1:35 p.m. The Ukrainian Cabinet says an outburst of malicious software has been contained. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
New highly virulent strain of ransomware cripples networks
A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine, where it badly hobbled much of the government and private … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US
A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...