Ukraine police raid accounting software company as part of NotPetya investigation

Police in the Ukraine have seized the servers of Intellect Service, a company supplying accounting software, as part of their investigation into the NotPetya ransomware attack. A malicious update to Intellect's MeDoc accounting package is believed to have been responsible for some of the initial NotPetya infections. The head of Ukraine's cyber police, Serhiy Demedyuk, says the software was subject to a supply chain attack. This would have involved gaining access to the source code in order to add a back door which gives access to a remote access Trojan. A police spokesman says that MeDoc was preparing to send… [Continue Reading]