Cyber attack: Ukrainian software company will face charges over security neglect: police

The small Ukrainian tax software company that is accused of being the patient zero of a damaging global cyber epidemic is under investigation and will face charges, the head of Ukraine’s CyberPolice has suggested.

Key points:

• Ukrainian software company ME Doc had blown off repeated warnings about the security of its IT infrastructure
• ME Doc initially denied role in the malicious software’s spread
• Ukrainian authorities blame Russia for masterminding the outbreak

The major cyber attack locked up computers around the world, disrupting businesses from Mumbai to Los Angeles and halting production at a Cadbury factory in Tasmania.

Colonel Serhiy Demydiuk, the head of Ukraine’s national Cyberpolice unit, said that Kiev-based ME Doc’s employees had blown off repeated warnings about the security of their information technology infrastructure.

“They knew about it,” he said.

Source: Cyber attack: Ukrainian software company will face charges over security neglect, police suggest – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)