The cyber-police prevented a repeat attack of the virus Petya.

Ciberpolitica on Tuesday, July 4, has stopped the second stage of the attack of the virus Petya.

Today, special agents of the Department of postal and telecommunications together with the specialists of the SBU and the city Prosecutor’s office, has stopped the second stage of a cyber attack Petya.

This was announced by the Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov on his page in Facebook.

“The peak attack was scheduled for 16.00. The attack started at 13.40. To 15.00 cyberpolice blocked the distribution and activation of the virus from the servers of the information system M. E. Doc. The attack was stopped. Servers seized, along with evidence of the impact of cyber-criminals with the obvious sources of the Russian Federation”, – wrote the Minister.

According to him, infection of information systems of the Ukrainian companies Petya virus occurred via the software update is intended for reporting and document management “M.E.Doc”.

The intruders interfered with the work of one of the personal computers of the company-developer of the said software, LLC “Intellect-Service”.

“Having access to source codes, they are in one of the updates the program has built a back door (backdoor) is a program that was installed on users’ computers, “M.E.Doc” unauthorized remote access. This software update likely occurred 15.05.2017 of the year”, – added Avakov.

He also said that representatives of the developer company “M.E.Doc” knew about the vulnerabilities in their systems, anti-virus companies, but ignored this information, as well as deny security problems with calling it a coincidence.

In addition, the consequence studies the version according to which these goals were strategically important for the state of the company, the attack which could destabilize the situation in Ukraine.

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