Petya Ransomware

Petya ransomware derived its name from the movie, Golden Eye, a 1995 James Bond flick. It was first discovered in 2016, as member of encrypting ransomware. Its primary targets are Microsoft Windows-based systems. It prevents Windows from booting by corrupting the master boot record and encrypts a victim’s hard drive’s file system through the [...]

Wannacry – The nightmare for vulnerable windows systems

Currently, one of the hot topics in the digital world has Wannacry Ransomware. This name had been spreading like wild fire, and the reason for it was that ransomware had been the most pervasive cyber threat since 2005. Interestingly, the first ransomware in history emerged in 1989 (that's 27 years ago) by the name [...]

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