Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2017
The Security Service of Ukraine warning their citizens of a new “large-scale” cyber attack similar to NotPetya that could take place between Oct 13 and 17 In June the NotPetya ransomware compromised thousands of businesses and organizations worldwide, most of them in Ukraine. Now, the Ukrainian authorities warning their citizens of a new “large-scale” cyber attack similar to NotPetya. The Ukrainian Secret […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2017
The Ukrainian central bank warned state-owned and private lenders of the appearance of new the NotPetya-like attack that would target national businesses. On Friday, the Ukrainian central bank warned of new malware-based attack risk. According to the Reuters, the Ukrainian central bank warned state-owned and private lenders of the spreading of new infections like the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2017
The author of the original variant of the Petya ransomware has made the master key available online, all the victims can decrypt their files for free. Janus, the author of the original variant of Petya ransomware (that isn’t the NotPetya variant used in the recent massive attack) has made the master key available online. All the victims of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
According to the researchers, the Petya variant (NotPetya) used in the massive attack is a wiper disguised by a ransomware. In these hours the massive global attack based on Petya variant made the headlines, computers in many countries were infected, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the US. A new analysis conducted on the ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
Threat actors in the wild have found the way to hijack the Petya ransomware on the fly and use it in targeted attacks, say welcome to PetrWrap ransomware. The Petya ransomware was first spotted by experts at TrendMicro one year ago, it overwrites MBR to lock users out of the infected machines. The Petya ransomware causes a blue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2016
Security Researchers have developed a decryption tool to restore the files encrypted by the Petya ransomware with a key generated in less than 10 seconds. Security researchers have analyzed the code of Petya ransomware in order to devise a method to allow victims to restore encrypted files. The experts have been able to develop a decryption tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2016
The best way to address a threat is to know it so security experts at F-Secure shared a detailed analysis on the new Petya ransomware. Several days ago, I wrote about a new singular Ransomware dubbed Petya that captured the attention of security experts because it causes a blue screen of death (BSoD) by overwriting the MBR. Now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2016
The Petya ransomware causes a blue screen of death (BSoD) by overwriting the MBR and leaves a ransom note at system startup. Ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats of this first part of the year, recently experts at TrendMicro has spotted a new malicious code dubbed Petya (RANSOM_PETYA.A) that overwrites MBR to lock users out […]
