KYIV: Ukraine said Sunday it had"evidence" that Russia was behind a massive cyberattack that knocked out key government websites this past week, while Microsoft warned the hack could be far worse than first thought.
"All the evidence points to Russia being behind the cyberattack," the Ukrainian digital transformation ministry said in a statement."Moscow is continuing to wage a hybrid war."The purpose of the attack, it added,"is not only to intimidate society. But to also destabilise the situation in Ukraine, halting the work of the public sector and crushing Ukrainians' trust in the authorities"."We have nothing to do with it.
The website of the foreign ministry for a time displayed a message in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish that said"be afraid and expect the worst". "The malware, which is designed to look like ransomware but lacking a ransom recovery mechanism, is intended to be destructive and designed to render targeted devices inoperable rather than to obtain a ransom," Microsoft said in a blog post.
"These systems span multiple government, non-profit, and information technology organisations, all based in Ukraine. We do not know the current stage of this attacker's operational cycle or how many other victim organisations may exist in Ukraine or other geographic locations."Senior government official Viktor Zhora told AFP on Friday that the hack was one of the"biggest" cyberattacks of the past few years.
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