Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Petrwrap-malware found a ransom, the new outbreak in Ukraine and are spreading across the world.


WannaCry flow just went silent soon last reported that a new ransomware are heavy infestations in the country Ukraine. Affect the Government, banks, airports, and a large energy company.

New ransomware virus ransom or is named Petya or Petrwrap began spreading in Ukraine is broad, a few hours ago. Now there are reports that the government was attacked by several agencies. Including central banks, communication companies, network, metro, airport Boryspil in Kiev city, or even the Chernobyl nuclear power plant computers it infected with this virus.



In addition, Maersk Shipping of Denmark was confirmed that the company's IT systems were attacked and shut down. But did not specify whether or not this is a new ransomware. While the Russian oil company Rosneft has also been affected as well.


When the victim's computer by this virus. Full screen will display the files on the device is encrypted. And to pay a currency Bitcoin worth US $ 300 to get the keys to unlock the files. However, no reports that paid for discharge or not.

The technical details section, it is not clear that this new virus spread, however, but the production company Avira Antivirus. Has determined that this virus ransom EternalBlue vulnerabilities that come out from the NSA with the same WannaCry.

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