Ukraine government servers still packed with malware
 

Microsoft warns

Software King of the World Microsoft warned on Saturday evening that it had detected a highly destructive form of malware in dozens of government and private computer networks in Ukraine.

Vole warned that the Malware was sitting waiting to be triggered and bears some resemblance to NotPetya, the widespreading 2017 malware which "American intelligence officials later traced to Russia."

The discovery comes as Russia has created a security crisis ignited in Eastern Europe by surrounding Ukraine on three sides with 100,000 troops and then apparently sending in saboteurs to create a pretext for invasion.

Writing in its Microsoft said at the same time government agencies in Ukraine found that their websites had been defaced investigators who watch over Microsoft's global networks detected the code.

"These systems span multiple government, nonprofit and information technology organisations, all based in Ukraine," Microsoft said.

The code appears to have been deployed around the time that Russian diplomats, after three days of meetings with the United States and NATO over the massing of Russian troops at the Ukrainian border, declared that the talks had essentially hit a dead end.

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