Cyprus games writer denies links to malware found before Russian invasion

A man rides his motorcycle in front of the church of St. George in the Ayios Dhometios suburb of Nicosia, Cyprus February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

NICOSIA/LONDON (Reuters) - A 24-year-old videogame designer who runs his small business out of a home next to an old Cypriot church in a quiet suburb of Nicosia now finds himself entangled in a global crisis following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Polis Trachonitis' firm, Hermetica Digital Ltd, has been implicated by U.S. researchers in a data-shredding cyberattack that hit hundreds of computers in Ukraine, Lithuania, and Latvia.