{"id":752914,"date":"2022-01-16T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/microsoft-warns-of-destructive-malware-found-on-ukrainian-computer-systems\/"},"modified":"2022-01-16T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T23:34:14","slug":"microsoft-warns-of-destructive-malware-found-on-ukrainian-computer-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/16\/microsoft-warns-of-destructive-malware-found-on-ukrainian-computer-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft warns of destructive malware found on Ukrainian computer systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Microsoft-warns-of-destructive-malware-found-on-Ukrainian-computer-systems.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 16 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Microsoft has discovered destructive malware capable of erasing data on dozens of computer Ukrainian computer systems.<\/p>\n<p>In a blog post Saturday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, or MSTIC, said it had first identified the malware on systems in Ukraine on Thursday spanning multiple government, non-profit and information technology organizations based in the country.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While Microsoft did was not able to assess the intent or origin of the malware, the team said it is &#8220;aware of ongoing geopolitical events in Ukraine&#8221; as Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border with Ukraine and warned the malware represents &#8220;an elevated risk to any government agency, non-profit or enterprise&#8221; located in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly encourage all organizations to immediately conduct a thorough investigation and to implement defenses using the information provided in this post,&#8221; Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said the computer code was designed to appear similar to ransomware but lacked features of ransomware that allow the perpetrators to extract a ransom and was &#8220;inconsistent with cybercriminal software activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The discovery comes as several Ukrainian government websites were hacked on Thursday and Friday and replaced with messages stating that Ukrainians&#8217; data had been compromised.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian officials said no personal data was leaked in the hacks.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the hacks appeared to be linked to a single software provider named Kitsoft, which said Friday it was helping the government websites restore connectivity, CNN reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 16 (UPI) &#8212; Microsoft has discovered destructive malware capable of erasing data on dozens of computer Ukrainian computer systems. In a blog post Saturday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, or MSTIC, said it had first identified the malware on systems in Ukraine on Thursday spanning multiple government, non-profit and information technology organizations based in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}