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NotPetya Ransomware Victims Preparing Lawsuit Against Ukrainian Software Firm (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the legal-action dept.

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Bleeping Computer: The Juscutum Attorneys Association, a Ukrainian law firm, is rallying NotPetya victims to join a collective lawsuit against Intellect-Service LLC, the company behind the M.E.Doc accounting software -- the point of origin of the NotPetya ransomware outbreak. The NotPetya ransomware spread via a trojanized M.E.Doc update, according to Microsoft, Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Cisco, ESET, and Ukrainian Cyber Police. A subsequent investigation revealed that Intellect-Service had grossly mismanaged the hacked servers, which were left without updates since 2013 and were backdoored on three different occasions. On Tuesday, Ukrainian Cyber Police confirmed that M.E.Doc servers were backdoored on three different occasions in an official document. The company is now using this document as the primary driving force behind its legal action. Juscutum says that victims must pay all court fees, must provide evidence or help with the collection of evidence, and agree to a 30% cut in the case of any awarded damages. The lawsuit is in its incipient stages. Juscutum representatives are currently spreading their message and encouraging victims to join the lawsuit via social media posts and articles in local Ukrainian press.

6 of 25 comments (clear)

  1. Ukrainian by turkeydance · · Score: 2

    says it all

    1. Re: Ukrainian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      How much is Putin paying you? This is obviously a false flag operation by the Ruskies.

      How much is Trump paying you? Obvious CIA operation.

  2. So... by Puls4r · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only ones who win are the (Ukranian) lawyers. Nice.

    1. Re:So... by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      Better those lawyers win and put the idiots out of business, rather than that software putting a whole bunch of their customers out of business when those customer computers carrying financial data get hacked. Back doored three bloody times, insider job at management level. The company will get sued into extinction and deservedly so. The laughable Democrat Russia defence, doesn't really cut when it hits an actual court room (which is why the corporate Democrat Russia defence will never ever touch a court room).

      --
      Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
  3. Re:All of the victims used Microsoft products... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2

    so I can't be too sympathetic to them. The should have known better.

    Some people have jobs and don't get to pick their favourite OS but what the applications run on. It's so easy when you never leave the basement.

  4. Re:Even money on Russia by qaz123 · · Score: 2

    Ukraine uses every chance to blame everything on Russia.