Petya cyberattack hits Europe and is quickly spreading

2017-06-28T09:28:02+02:00

On the heels of the recent WannaCry attack, Europe has been hit with a new ransomware variant known as Petya. Ukraine reported ransom demands targeting the government and key infrastructure, and the Danish Maersk conglomerate said many of its systems were down. This ransomware uses both social engineering via email to download the malicious file, either as a ZIP [...]