Ukraine Cyber Attack: Chaos As National Bank, State Power Provider And Airport Hit by Hackers

By Staff Reporter
Posted on 06/27/17 | News Source: The Independent

Russian energy firms and Danish shipping company also hit by hackers

Ukraine’s national bank, state power company and largest airport are among the targets of a huge cyber attack on government infrastructure.

Rozenko Pavlo, the deputy Prime Minister, said he and other members of the Ukrainian government were unable to access their computers.

“We also have a network 'down',” he wrote. “This image is being displayed by all computers of the government.”

The photo showed his PC displaying a message claiming a disk “contains errors and needs to be prepared”, urging the user not to turn it off.

Та-дам! Секретаріат КМУ по ходу теж "обвалили". Мережа лежить. pic.twitter.com/B74jMsT0qs

— Rozenko Pavlo (@RozenkoPavlo) June 27, 2017

Images from other affected computers and disabled cash points showed what appeared to be...read more at The Independent