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The new malware, which is designed to mimic the appearance of ransomware but includes no mechanism for ransom recovery, has not been tied to any currently tracked APT group or nation, but was found in “dozens” of Ukrainian systems across the government, non-profit and information technology sectors.
Last week it was reported that Ukraine government servers were hit by a significant cyberattack that took down government websites. Some of the affected systems, including the...
All the ransomware, none of the recovery capabilities.
Microsoft has published a more in-depth analysis of the recent Ukraine cyberattack, showing that the destructive malware is more like ransomware and follows a known pattern.
Microsoft says the code is actually "designed to render targeted devices inoperable" and that the full scope of the impact is unknown.