Most informsystem of the public sector is not infected WannaCrypt

The Agency has been informed about the cyber incidents in Ukraine with the use of a cipher WannaCrypt.

Most information systems of Ukrainian state institutions managed to avoid infection by a malicious program WannaCrypt, which has disrupted tens of thousands of computers around the world.

About it reports a press-service of the State service of special communication and information protection of Ukraine.

According to the report, the vast majority of infections occurred due to the discovery of malicious applications (Word documents, PDF files) that were sent to the email addresses of many commercial structures and government agencies.

“As a result of operative measures taken and early warning of mass distribution of Cypher WannaCrypt and provide necessary recommendations managed to avoid most infections information systems of the public sector”, – stated in the message.

Attack whose main goal was the spread of file encryption WannaCrypt, use the network vulnerability MS17-010, the operation of which on the infected computer installed a set of scripts used by the attackers to launch the file encryption, explained in the State.

Recall, virus-extortionist began to spread on 12 may. It locks your computer and demands $ 300 to unlock. Today, may 13 the spread of the virus failed to suspend domain zaregistrirovan iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com.

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