VB2017 videos on attacks against Ukraine

Thanks to Virus Bulletin for giving a chance to talk about the most destructive attacks this year.

"(In)security is a global problem that affects every country in the world, but in recent years, none has been as badly hit as Ukraine.The most well known malware that affected the country is (Not)Petya, a ransomware/wiper threat that had global impact (it cost shipping firm Maersk alone $300m in lost revenues), but which hit Ukrainian businesses particularly hard. The malware spread through a compromised update pushed out by M.E.Doc's tax accounting software, which is popular in the country.
In a VB2017 presentation, NioGuard's Alexander Adamov, himself based in Ukraine, discussed how (Not)Petya and related attacks worked and what impact they had. We have now uploaded the video of his presentation to our YouTube channel."

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https://www.virusbulletin.com/blog/2017/12/vb2017-videos-attacks-against-ukraine/

VB2017: Battlefield Ukraine

This summer, Ukraine unwillingly became the battlefield of the hacker group(s) with the supposedly Russian roots and the antivirus industry. This is not the first time when Ukraine attracts attention of cyber security experts. Suffice it to recall in this regard the several waves of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure of Ukraine using the BlackEnergy [1] and Industroyer [2,3] industrial malware supposedly created by a Russian hacker group.