Ukraine's SBU security service says malicious software has been stopped from spreading
KYIV. June 30 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) "interacting with foreign partners has stopped the exploitation of the Ukrainian network infrastructure for the purposes of intended malicious software dissemination by the Russian secret services aiming to infect informational networks of critical infrastructure facilities belonging to the Ukrainian nation and other countries," the SBU said on Friday.
"It has carried out together with foreign partners some coordinated procedural measures and effectively suppressed the far-reaching international network infrastructure built up by Russian special agencies," the SBU press center said in a statement published in Kyiv.
According to the Ukrainian security service, the divergent infrastructure was used to covertly exploit server equipment, including a Ukrainian webhosting, to carry out targeted cyber-attacks and specifically, so-called APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attacks, and also to infect critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine and other nations with special types of malicious computer software.
Law enforcers carried out searches and seized computer servers that were involved in the cyber-attacks, the SBU said in the statement. "Operational and investigative actions continue and those involved in the illegal activities and the information circulating in the cyber infrastructure are being identified," the SBU said.
