The one famous line that comes to my mind when talking about NotPetya is “Some men just want to watch the world burn”. As NotPetya was designed not to fill pockets of these criminals but to just create mayhem. The Ransomware was responsible for shutting down thousands of businesses, organizations and banks in Ukraine as well as various parts of Europe in June this year.<\/p>\n
Technically speaking, Ransomware, also known as “NotPetya”, uses a variant of the “Eternal Blue” exploit, which comes from the fundus of the NSA and was stolen from the US news service via Hack.\u00a0In addition, the “EternalRomance” exploit and a very special attack against the updating mechanism of a Ukrainian (control) software called MeDoc.<\/p>\n
The name “NotPetya” is used, among other things, by the security experts of the Russian anti-virus vendor\u00a0Kaspersky, because it is doubtful that this is actually Petya or a real variant of it.<\/p>\n
As for now, Ukranian government authorities have once again warned the people to brace themselves for the next-wave of NotPetya style attack which will be affecting at the same scale or even more this time. It was declared in a press release by the Secret Service Of Ukraine (SBU).<\/p>\n
They have warned that the attack may once again be conducted by a malicious software update against the state government and private companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The one famous line that comes to my mind when talking about NotPetya is “Some men just want to watch the world burn”. As NotPetya was designed not to fill pockets of these criminals but to just create mayhem. 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