The Symantec Response team did further analysis on the attack and released the Top 20 countries impacted by Petya. Ukraine, US, Russia, France and the UK were the most impacted (see graph below). Similar to WannaCry, Petya uses the Eternal Blue exploit as one of the means to propagate itself. HoweverRead More…

Ransomware initially targeted individuals through phishing or other infection techniques that required user interaction. While profitable to the cybercriminals, such campaigns took time to reach a big scale. The WannaCry attack that happened in May, took ransomware to the next level by introducing worm-based compromise of machines. This Tuesday’s attacks,Read More…