Article 2V372 A new ransomware strain is seemingly using a leaked NSA cyberweapon to race around the planet

A new ransomware strain is seemingly using a leaked NSA cyberweapon to race around the planet

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Cory Doctorow
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Petya is a well-known ransomware app that has attained a new, deadly virulence, with thousands of new infection attempts hitting Kaspersky Lab's honeypots; security firm Avira attributes this new hardiness to the incorporation of EternalBlue -- the same NSA cyberweapon that the Wannacry ransomware used, which was published by The Shadow Brokers hacker group -- into a new Petya strain. (more")

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