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In Ukraine, banking services nationwide as well as credit card payments on the metro in Kiev, and the airport IT systems, are all down. At what point do we call it massive? When US banks and airports start having trouble?

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That's interesting. I've heard a lot about Russia testing out cyberwarfare in Ukraine as a possible proving ground for future targets. Was Ukraine the hardest hit by this latest one?

It'd be interesting if this were actually made to take down infrastructure under the guise of ransomware.

Ukraine seems to be explicitly targeted, with the initial distribution happening already for some time but having a trigger to start lateral infection (which would be detectable) only 27th June 10:30 ( https://twitter.com/CyberpoliceUA/status/879825132088426499 ) and the actual ransom attacks only some hours after that; so it was intended to spread locally before attracting global attention.

Apparently initially the thing spread through the update of a popular Ukrainian accounting software [1], infecting a lot of networks of Ukrainian companies.

[1] me-doc.com.ua

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