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Normally when you think about ransomware you think about something clearly malicious such as Petya and others. You could get your files back if infected with Petya, but the hackers wanted $300 in bitcoin to do it. A new kind of ransomware, however, is making the rounds and this variant is based on the game PUBG (Player Unknown's Battlegrounds), of all things. PUBG is a battle royale style game that is played online in large multiplayer formats, and all this PUBG Ransomware wants you to do is play the game for an hour. Not so bad, right? Well, it is still ransomware. The ransomware was discovered by MalwareHunterTeam and like other ransomware attacks, PUBG Ransomware will encrypt...
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Here's something you don't see too often: a ransomware creator unearthing the master decryption key for public consumption. That's exactly what we're seeing from Petya's original developer, allowing those affected by certain versions of Petya to recover their data, and developers the ability to create decrypters to make the entire process that much easier. Unfortunately, there are a number of major caveats here. The biggest one is the fact that most of those affected by these specific versions of Petya dealt with it last year, not recently. It stands to reason that many of those folks did not clone or keep their drive, because it could have felt like a lost cause. If you still have the data,...
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Over the past few years, one of the most prevalent types of malware has been ransomware - an infection that automatically locks down your sensitive data, and then makes you buy it back with your hard-earned cash. In May, one of the hardest-hitting ransomware strikes occurred, via the appropriately named WannaCry. Now, that's "old" news; today, the major threat is Petya, another piece of ransomware. Or is it? That's the big question. As we covered a couple of times this week, Petya is designated as ransomware that seems to be mostly striking computers in Europe. If infected, the user is told to send $300 worth of Bitcoin to a specific address to receive a key. The fee, all things considered, is...
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There are no days off in Redmond, at least not for Microsoft. Hot on the heels of dealing with the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, Microsoft has now addressed reports of a new ransomware making the rounds, one that shares similar code with Petya, a nasty piece of ransomware in and of itself. What makes this new strain so dangerous is that it is capable of spreading across networks like a worm. This new ransomware is more sophisticated than the original Petya outbreak. According to Microsoft, the initial strain seems to originate from a Ukrainian company that builds a pierce of accounting software called MEDoc. Microsoft says it now has evidence that few active infections of the ransomware started...
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Following last month's WannaCry attack, it looks as though another ransomware outbreak is quickly spreading around the globe. The attack seems to be centered in the Ukraine, where the ransomware has crippled the country’s central bank and power utilities like Ukrenego and Kyivenergo. Kiev’s Borispol airport has also come under attack according to a Facebook posting, and the city’s metro system has seen its payment infrastructure infiltrated. However, the official Twitter account for the Ukraine was decidedly upbeat about the outbreak, breaking the tension with a little bit of humor: Some of our gov agencies, private firms were hit by a virus. No need to panic, we’re putting utmost efforts...
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