The SBU said about the involvement of Russian intelligence to cyber attack virus Petya
The security service of Ukraine said that Russian intelligence services were involved in the cyber attack on the country, which began on June 27. In Kiev decided that the target of the attack was to “destroy important data.”
To cyber attack of the virus Petya, which mainly affected the companies and agencies in Ukraine, involved the same hacker group that committed cyber attacks on the Ukrainian financial system in 2016.
This indicates involvement in the attack, the Russian security services, said the security Service of Ukraine.
Data on participation in the cyber attack hacker groups, the security service received at “cooperation with international antivirus companies.”
In the SBU believe that the recent cyber attack was aimed at “destabilizing the social-political situation in the country.” That the virus is “a cover for a large-scale attack on Ukraine” indicate that the hackers”, there was no real mechanism for” obtaining money users. “Enrichment was not the target of the attack,” — said in Kiev.
The Ukrainian security service came to the conclusion that the virus was intended for “the destruction of important data and disruption of public and private institutions of Ukraine”, and also to spread panic among the population.
In SBU noted “originality” vector of infection” associated with the use of application software that in recent years, “met only once” during the cyber attacks from North Korea.