Russia Behind Cyber-attack, Says Ukraine's Security Service (bbc.com)

Ukraine says it has discovered who the perpetrators of last week's destructive ransomware attack are. From a report: Ukraine says it has proof that Russian security services were involved in the cyber-attack that targeted businesses around the world last week. The country's security service, the SBU, said it had obtained data that points to a link with an attack on the nation's capital, Kiev, in December. Ukrainian firms were among the first to report issues with malicious software on Tuesday, before the virus spread. Moscow denied any involvement, adding that the allegations were "unfounded". The virus, which disrupted IT systems across the globe, froze computers and demanded a ransom be paid in the digital currency Bitcoin, which is untraceable. Further reading: The Petya Ransomware Is Starting To Look Like a Cyberattack in Disguise.

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Russian companies were hit by that Petya thing

[atomlib]

Whatever it was, that Petya thing hit bunch of Russian companies as well. For example, it hit Russia's top oil providers Rosneft and Bashneft. Some of them suffered quite a bit. Invitro, a nationwide network of private medical laboratories, temporarily ceased samples collection due to the cyberattack.

Re:bitcoin transactions are untraceable?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone who says Bitcoin is "untraceable" is an idiot, it's in a Public Ledger, that's how it bloody well works. It would be more accurate to say it's anonymous.

Re: Cue treasonous denial of reality in 3.2.1.

[king neckbeard]

No, you've got it completely backwards, as well as mixing up the various times the Dems go hacked. The Cyrillic characters were from the Guccifer 2.0 leaks, along with a commie hero username or something along those lines.

The Podesta emails were unaltered (and many were DKIM verified), but Sputnik inaccurately reported that an email excerpt from Eichenwald in an email sent by Blumenthal was written by Blumenthal herself, after which they deleted it. Then, American news outlets used that to claim that the emails themselves were altered, because that's way scarier than Russian sites missing a 'by' in an email and reporting sloppily.