Malware analysts from Slovak cyber-security firm ESET have found substantial evidence that links cyber-attacks performed against Ukraine’s power grid to the same group behind the NotPetya ransomware outbreak of June 2017.
The link is not a direct one, but through a third malware strain that was spotted in an unrelated hacking operation in April this year.
Researchers say this malware –the Exaramel backdoor– was deployed from the server infrastructure of Telebots, the name of the group from whose infrastructure the NotPetya ransomware also originated.
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Source: ZDNet