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Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannacCry, another wide-spread attack.
The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France,UK,India and Europe and demanding $300 in bitcoins.
According to multiple sources, a new variant of Petya ransomware, also known as Petwrap, is spreading rapidly with the help of same Windows SMBv1 vulnerability that the WannaCry ransomware abused to infect 300,000 systems and servers worldwide in just 72 hours last month.
Apart from this, many victims have also informed that Petya ransomware has also infected their patch systems.
Don't Pay Ransom, You Wouldn't Get Your Files Back
Infected users are advised not to pay the ransom because hackers behind Petya ransomware can't get your emails anymore.
Petya! Petya! Another Worldwide Ransomwae Attack
Screenshots of the latest Petya infection, shared on Twitter, shows that the ransomware displays a text, demanding $300 worth of Bitcoins. Here's what the text read.
How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware Attacks
What to do immediately? Go and apply those goddamn patches against EternalBlue (MS17-010) and disable the unsecured, 30-year-old SMBv1 file-sharing protocol on your Windows systems and servers.
According to multiple sources, a new variant of Petya ransomware, also known as Petwrap, is spreading rapidly with the help of same Windows SMBv1 vulnerability that the WannaCry ransomware abused to infect 300,000 systems and servers worldwide in just 72 hours last month.
Apart from this, many victims have also informed that Petya ransomware has also infected their patch systems.
Don't Pay Ransom, You Wouldn't Get Your Files Back
Infected users are advised not to pay the ransom because hackers behind Petya ransomware can't get your emails anymore.
Petya! Petya! Another Worldwide Ransomwae Attack
Screenshots of the latest Petya infection, shared on Twitter, shows that the ransomware displays a text, demanding $300 worth of Bitcoins. Here's what the text read.
How to Protect Yourself from Ransomware Attacks
What to do immediately? Go and apply those goddamn patches against EternalBlue (MS17-010) and disable the unsecured, 30-year-old SMBv1 file-sharing protocol on your Windows systems and servers.
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