A laptop displays a message after it was infected with ransomware resembling the 'NotPetya' attack last year. (Rob Engelaar/European Pressphoto Agency)The CIA has attributed to Russian military hackers a cyberattack that crippled computers in Ukraine last year, an effort to disrupt that country’s financial system amid its ongoing war with separatists loyal to the Kremlin. The June 2017 attack, delivered through a mock ransomware virus dubbed NotPetya, wiped data from the computers of banks, energy firms, senior government officials and an airport. The GRU military spy agency created NotPetya, the CIA concluded with “high confidence” in November, according to classified reports cited by U.S. intelligence officials. The hackers worked for the military spy service’s GTsST, or Main Center for Special Technology, the CIA reported.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2018 23:48 UTC