[Video] Ukrainian Police Describe Seize Servers Of Software Theater Linked To Notpetya Cyberattack

Ukrainian National Police has released a video showing officers raiding companionship of M.E.Doc accounting software makers, whose systems convey been linked to outbreak of Petya (NotPetya) ransomware that lately infected computers of several major companies worldwide.

On quaternary July, masked constabulary officers from Ukrainian anti-cybercrime unit of measurement — carrying shotguns in addition to onslaught rifles — raided the software evolution theater “Intellect Service,” inwards the majuscule urban heart Kyiv in addition to seized their servers, which were reportedly compromised yesteryear hackers to spread (ExPetr, PetrWrap, Petya, NotPetya) ransomware.

Researchers from ESET safety theater convey WannaCry similar global ransomware attack.

The software companionship previously denied its servers had been compromised, merely several researchers in addition to fifty-fifty Microsoft blamed the companionship for beingness "patient zero" for the NotPetya attack.

Ukrainian authorisation has also said that the companionship could confront charges.

Moreover, the Petya investigation took interesting twist final calendar week when researchers constitute that NotPetya is non a ransomware; instead, it’s a destructive slice of “wiper” malware designed to destroy all records from the targeted systems, making organizations to nigh downward their operations.

Ukrainian authorisation has recommended M.E.Doc customers to halt using its accounting software until farther notice. So, yous are supposed to plow off your computers if it has the M.E.Doc software installed on in addition to modify your passwords.

Ukraine believes Russian Federation is behind the NotPetya cyber onslaught that nigh downward the nation's critical operations, including the airport, local metro, hospitals, in addition to government, merely authorities are all the same investigating the case.

NotPetya Hacker Demands 100 Bitcoins for the Decryption Key

It was also reported today that the hackers connected to the NotPetya ransomware moved $10,000 worth of Bitcoins from the online wallet they were using to have payments from victims to a different wallet.

After that someone claimed to hold upwards connected to NotPetya Posted an annunciation on DeepPaste in addition to Pastebin, call for for 100 Bitcoins (roughly $256,000) for the somebody cardinal that supposedly decrypts whatsoever file encrypted amongst NotPetya.