Turns Out New Petya is Not a Ransomware, It’s a Destructive Wiper Malware

The Hacker News Daily Updates Four Countermeasures to Protect Against Ransomware Learn best practices for defense in depth against Crimeware. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jun 29, 2017 Original Author of Petya Ransomware is Back & He Wants to Help NotPetya Victims The author of original Petya ransomware is back. After a long 6 months of silence, the author of now infamous Petya ransomware appeared on Twitter today to help victims unlock their files encrypted by a new version of Petya, also known as NotPetya. "We're back having a look in NotPetya," tweeted ... Read More Telegram Agrees to Register With Russia to Avoid Ban, But Won't Share User Data After being threatened with a ban in Russia, end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app has finally agreed to register with new Russian Data Protection Laws, but its founder has assured that the company will not comply to share users' confidential data at any cost. Russia's communications ... Read More Your Linux Machine Can Be Hacked Remotely With Just A Malicious DNS Response A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Systemd, the popular init system and service manager for Linux operating systems, that could allow remote attackers to potentially trigger a buffer overflow to execute malicious code on the targeted machines via a DNS response. The vulnerability, ... Read More Turns Out New Petya is Not a Ransomware, It's a Destructive Wiper Malware What if I say the Tuesday's devastating global malware outbreak was not due to any ransomware infection? Yes, the Petya ransomware attacks that began infecting computers in several countries, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the United States on Tuesday and demands $300 ransom was not ... Read More Microsoft Adding Artificial-Intelligence Based Advanced Antivirus to Windows 10 Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows operating system more secure and advanced than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber attacks in its next release. With the launch of its Windows 10 Creator Update (also known as RedStone 3), ... Read More Four Countermeasures to Protect Against Ransomware Learn best practices for defense in depth against Crimeware. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India