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Ukraine warns of possible cyber attack in the Champions League final

Cisco Systems and Symantec have detected that half a million routers in a number of countries have been infected and, before releasing their discovery, have alerted US and Ukrainian authorities of the malware they have nicknamed VPNFilter and targeting devices. Linksys, MikroTik, Netgear, TP-Link and QNAP.As most of the infected devices are in Ukraine, the Security Service of that country (SBU) says that the attack may have to do with the final of the European Champions League, which takes place in Kiev on Saturday 26, finger to Russia."Security experts believe that the hardware infliction in the territory of Ukraine is a preparation for another cyber attack by Russia to destabilize the situation during the Champions League final," the SBU said in a statement.Cisco has been investigating the threat for several months and also believes that Moscow is behind this campaign. According to one of his researchers, malicious software has pieces of code equal to other malware used in cyber attacks attributed to Russia.The Kremlin has already come to deny the claim that it is planning a cyber attack on state-owned entities and Ukrainian private companies before the final of the football competition, Reuters reports.VPNFilter can be used for various types of attack, including espionage, interference in communications networks or to launch a destructive attack such as NotPetya.



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