Cyber-attack on Ukraine seems to have come from Russia, experts say [View all]

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Russia disguised its attack on Ukraine as ransomware, so as to pretend that this was the work of a obscure, mysterious, unaffiliated hacking group, experts said.

“The fact of pretending to be a ransomware while being in fact a nation-state attack . . . is in our opinion a very subtle way for the attacker to control the narrative of the attack,” Suiche said.

Security researchers cautioned that it is too early to know for sure who is behind it. But some say that the targeting and distribution method of the malware point to Russia.

More than half the victimized computers were in Ukraine, including banks, energy firms and an airport.

Russia, which has annexed Crimea and has backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, has carried out an aggressive campaign of cyberattacks and harassment there."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/this-weeks-global-ransomware-attack-was-a-ruse-to-deflect-attention-from-the-true-culprit-researchers-say/2017/06/29/da455a0e-5cf0-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html