Petya Ransomware Outbreak is WannaCry done by Pros | #CyberSeurity #Awareness | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it
From safeandsavvy.f-secure.com - June 27, 2017 5:18 PM
An outbreak of a particularly nasty ransomware family is making its way across the globe. And while the current outbreak has similarities with last month’s WannaCry epidemic, security researchers warn that the current campaign is much more professional, and potentially much worse for companies.

F-Secure Labs has confirmed that the ransomware being used this time around is the Petya ransomware family, and that it is behaving like a network worm, spreading through the same SMB vulnerability (using the EternalBlue exploit developed by the NSA) as WannaCry.

F-Secure Labs’ Jarkko described Petya as ransomware with an evil twist in a blog post he wrote in 2016. Rather than just encrypt files, it locks the entire disk, making it basically unusable until the infection is removed.

 

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