MOSCOW -- Software giant Microsoft is investigating reports
into Tuesday’s attack of the encrypting virus Petya, which attacked computers
in various countries worldwide earlier in the day, a Microsoft spokeswoman told
TASS.
"We are aware of the situation and are investigating it," she
said.
The large-scale virus attack on oil, telecoms and financial companies
in Russia and Ukraine was registered at about 2 p.m. Moscow time.
Costin Raiu, the global research and analysis head at the Russian web
security company Kaspersky Lab, wrote in his Tweeter account on Tuesday that
the ransomware that emerged on June 18 this year "has a fake Microsoft
digital signature appended."
According to the preliminary data of the Group-IB internet security
company, the virus has attacked about 80 organizations in Russia and Ukraine.
The malware blocks computers and prevents users from uploading an operating
system. The virus extorts a USD 300 ransom in bitcoins for the resumption of
work and file-decrypting. (Itar-TASS)
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