Cyber attacks are part of Russia's hybrid war against Ukraine

One of the ways to spread the dangerous computer virus in Ukraine was using the online updating system of accounting software, as well as using the so-called dark net, Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov has said.

The NSDC's press service cited Turchynov as saying during a meeting about the June 27 cyber attack in Ukraine that "the spread of this computer virus and analysis of its attack of information systems gives us the opportunity to say that this is part of a hybrid war, which Russia is waging against us."

"This occurred because of an automated online accounting software updating system. An IP hosting service of an Internet provider, which Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) was interested in because of ties with Russian special services, was also involved," Turchynov was quoted as saying.

Turchynov said the latest cyber attack demonstrated the low level of cyber security specialists working in government institutions. He said urgent measures need to be taken, adding that Ukraine's national cyber security center would make recommendations to the NSDC in the near future.