Kiev has blamed Russia for hacker attacks on Ukrainian financial institutions and state companies, TASS informs. As Advisor to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Zoryan Shkiryak has assured, that there are no doubts about that. He has explained that hacker attacks are nothing but a symptom of the hybrid war. However, he did not provide any facts in support of his words about existence of notorious Russian hackers.
Earlier, Ukrainian National Bank has spread a warning about an unknown virus entering bank computing networks.
Mass Media sources reported that cyber-attacks hit systems of Ukrenergo – an operator of the unified energy system in the country as well as Kievenergo – a supplier of electricity and hot water to the Ukrainian capital.
At this, hacker attacks repeated on companies working on the territory of Russia such as Rosneft, Bashneft, Mars, Nivea and some others.
Petya virus blocks computers demanding to pay three hundred bitcoin dollars. A massive attack on Russian and Ukrainian companies was registered about 2 p.m. today.
It should be reminded that almost 60 000 attacks of WannaCry virus happened in the early hours of May 13. The most active attacks were fixed in Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan. Experts remark that hacker attacks were registered at the territory of more than 70 countries.
The virus stroke Russian railroads, banks, major mobile operators, Ministry of Internal Affairs systems and health systems in Russia.
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