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Russian cybersecurity firm Group-IB has confirmed that at least three media organisations in its country have been hit by ransomware, although a report by Russian news agency Interfax initially said its systems had been hit by a "hacker attack" that had disabled its online services.

Other , including Odessa International Airport and the Kyiv Metro, also said they had been victims of the cyberattack. However, when reports of Bad Rabbit infections began to come in, CERT-UA (Ukraine's Computer Emergency Response Team) reported "a possible start of a new wave of cyberattacks on Ukrainian information resources."

At the time of writing, there were kenya mobile database 200 known infected targets, and while it was not a WannaCry or Petya-level attack, it was causing problems for the organizations affected.

"Based on the known infection rate, it's quite low compared to common strains," said Jakub Kroustek, a malware analyst at Avast.

2. This is clearly ransomware . Organizations unfortunate enough to fall victim to the attack quickly realized what had happened to them, as the malware made no secret of its purpose - ransom demands were displayed on the screens, stating that the user's files were "no longer accessible" and "no one can recover them without our decryption service."