Wapack Labs has received information suggesting a possible NotPetya-like attack that may be targeting Ukrainian Banking and critical infrastructure, today, to coincide with the Ukrainian Independence Day. On 11 August 2017, The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU, the Central Bank of Ukraine) notified Ukrainian banks about an up-coming NotPetya-like attack. Journalists reported it on 16 August 2017. Several English and Russian speaking news sites reported on the issue, but most if not all were resulting from circular reporting from the original sources:
- NotPetya-like attack
- Hitting corporate networks of the Ukrainian businesses
- On or around the Ukrainian Independence Day (24 August 2017)
- Via a malicious MS Word attachment
- Not known to anti-viruses at the moment of the NBU warning
- NBU cooperates with CERT-UA to stop similar attacks...READ MORE
Wapack Labs has cataloged and reported extensively on Ukraine and NotPetya in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.
Creators of the NotPetya (also known as Petya, PetrWrap, Petya.A, Win32/Diskcoder.Petya.C, EternalPetya, Nyetya, and exPetr) continue to present NotPetya as “simple ransomware.” The developers have moved received bitcoins, sent payments to Pastebin and DeepPaste associated wallets, contacted the public, and apparently were able to decrypt one short NotPetya encrypted file. At the same time, NotPetya creators did not use the original Petya ransomware source code, and likely left no remedy for most users to recover their encrypted data, despite showing them the ransom note. These observations, together with targeting and comparative TTP data for XData and BlackEnergy3 Killdisk, allow Wapack analysts to attribute NotPetya as likely belonging to Russian APT. The Petya/NotPetya operation is likely another Russian APT targeted disruption of Ukrainian IT infrastructure and possibly an intelligence operation - yet masked as a ransomware case. At the same time, it is probable that Petya and NotPetya actors may have a master key to decrypt user files; in case the targeted disk was not destroyed and system information is available...READ MORE
In late June 2017, Wapack Labs identified a malicious email targeting Ukrainian Financial Institutions (FI) to deliver a credential stealing malware called Loki Bot. This incident happened at the same time as the Petya/NotPetya Ransomware outbreak, which also targeted Ukrainian banking infrastructure. Possibly due to the confusion generated during the initial Petya/NotPetya outbreak, Loki Bot samples and C2s were reported as being Petya/NotPetya ransomware. Further confusion resulted when Anti-virus (AV) detections began identifying Loki Bot as Petya/NotPetya. Loki Bot is sold in underground Tor marketplaces and can steal passwords from browsers, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) applications, email accounts, and crypto-coin wallets. This report discusses the misattribution of Loki Bot, along with technical details of analyzed Loki Bot samples…
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Wapack Labs has cataloged and reported extensively on Loki Bot, and Loki RAT, in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.
Wapack Labs has received information suggesting a possible NotPetya-like attack that may be targeting Ukrainian Banking and critical infrastructure, today, to coincide with the Ukrainian Independence Day. On 11 August 2017, The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU, the Central Bank of Ukraine) notified Ukrainian banks about an up-coming NotPetya-like attack. Journalists reported it on 16 August 2017. Several English and Russian speaking news sites reported on the issue, but most if not all were resulting from circular reporting from the original sources:
