NotPetya and not just Petya: NSA, the US National Security Agency, started using a hacking tool called EternalBlue five years ago. During that time, the service breached networks, using a flaw it should have immediately disclosed to Microsoft.
The NSA finally disclosed the vulnerability to Microsoft earlier this year, but only after the exploits were stolen and then posted online. Microsoft immediately issued a "critical" patch (in March), and from May WannaCry began to circulate. A ransomware used by EternalBlue to infiltrate Windows computers. This particular one malicious software managed to infect over 230.000 computers in over 150 countries.
Yesterday we met NotPetya.
NotPetya is similar to Petya ransomware, but it belongs in a taxonomy of its own, according to its researchers better safetys. And two used the EternalBlue exploit, but their similarities don't stop there.
NotPetya is a completely new form of ransomware used yesterday to invade the Chernobyl radiation detection system, the Kiev subway, the banks and at least one US hospital.
Η Kaspersky claims that at least 2.000 businesses and institutions around the world have been affected in the last 24 hours.
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- Kaspersky (@kaspersky) June 27, 2017
And WannaCry, it was devastating, but it was an impossible tool full of bugs created by amateurs.
NotPetya, according to experts, is not an amateur tool.
“That's great. Really great, ”former NSA analyst David Kennedy told Forbes.
Unlike WannaCry, which contained a Switch kill to be able to disable it remotely. That's it new ransomware it has no equivalent.
The bad news is that it can infect any version of Windows, including Windows 10. It can even infect patched systems if there is a patched PC on the network.
The failure of the NSA and the CIA to keep the tools in their hands gave a very good lesson to everyone who criticized Snowden. Snowden had warned that this could happen.
Collecting information from agencies can cause global damage.
Let's not forget that NotPetya has just started….