How ransomware is creating a data backup explosion
While the WannaCry ransomware and Petya – a wiper disguised as ransomware – are two of the most recent headline-grabbers in the security world, the truth is that we’ve been seeing this type of attack become more common over the past few years. Because data is the new oil in the digital economy, ransomware attacks…
The Law of Unintended Outbreak – Who Is at Risk from Petya?
Hot on the heels of the global WannaCry outbreak in May, yesterday saw a wave of what looked like copycat malware sweeping the globe again. However, on closer inspection there may more to this than meets the eye, more than a simple new variant of an already established ransomware borrowing propagation techniques from WannaCry. The…
Goldeneye Ransomware – the Petya/Mischa combo rebranded
From March 2016 we’ve observed the evolution of an interesting low-level ransomware, Petya – you can read about it here. The second version (green) Petya comes combined with another ransomware, packed in the same dropper – Mischa. The latter one was deployed as an alternative payload: in case if the dropper was run without administrator…