"KIEV (Reuters) - Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday... The hackers are targeting companies, including banks and energy infrastructure firms, in a roll out that suggests they are preparing to activate the malware in one massive strike, cyber police chief Serhiy Demedyuk said... 'The fact that the Ukraine government has decided to go public with this shows that they are scared that this could have a big impact and want people to be aware,' said Jaime Blasco, chief scientist with cybersecurity firm AlienVault. It is difficult to contain the impact of a cyberattack within one nation, so it is possible this new threat could spread around the globe, he added... Hackers have sought to evade detection by breaking malware into separate files, which are put onto targeted networks before they activate them,.. The scale of the current campaign is the same as NotPetya, according to Demedyuk..." https://in.reuters.com/article/ukra...eparing-massive-strike-idINKBN1JM2XF?rpc=401&
"SBU thwarts cyber attack from Russia against chlorine station... Ukraine's SBU Security Service has thwarted an attempt by Russian special services to conduct a cyber attack on network equipment belonging to LLC Aulska chlorine station (the village of Auly, Dnipropetrovsk region), which provides chlorine to water treatment and sewage plants for chlorination throughout Ukraine and is regarded as critical infrastructure... 'Specialists of the cyber security service established minutes after [the incident] that the enterprise's process control system and system for detecting signs of emergencies had deliberately been infected by the VPNFilter computer virus originating from Russia. The continuation of the cyber attack could have led to a breakdown in technological processes and a possible accident,' the SBU said ... The SBU said its agents together with a telecoms provider and workers of the station managed to prevent a potential man-made disaster,..." https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/517337.html
