Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak
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Backdoor built in to widely used tax app seeded last week’s NotPetya outbreak

Enlarge (credit: National Police of Ukraine) The third-party software updater used to seed last week’s NotPetya worm that shut down computers around the world was compromised more than a month before the outbreak. This is yet another sign the attack was carefully planned and executed. Researchers from antivirus provider Eset, in a blog post published Tuesday, said the malware was spread through a legitimate update module of...

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