The New Ransomware Attacks Informatics system in europe

Bad Rabbit Ransomware

U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness through CNN, stated that there are several new reports about the type of ransomware siber attacks in various worlds. The news from cyber security experts reported that the Ukrainian transport system company and the Russian media (Interfax and Fontaka) had "locked in" due to ransomware virus. In the United States, Germany, and Japan, ransomware is made to resemble Adobe update software.

As head of the anti-malware research team at Kaspersky Lab, is conducting an investigation into cyber-attack actions targeting organizations around the world. Reportedly, the new ransomware program can capture victim documents through a special encryption algorithm, and they usually ask for a ransom so all data can be returned.

"The company's preliminary findings indicate that this attack is not of the kind Petan Ransomware as it was reported to the public, but a new ransomware that has never been seen before.That's why the company called this ransomware NotPetya," as Kaspersky Lab's description.

The allegations mentioned by Zakorzhevsky are reinforced by Costin Raiu's statement, as Director of the Global Research and Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab, he said the Bad Rabbit attack was sent through a network of complicated hacker sites using links to NotPetya. Although not as severe as NotPetya attacks, many experts claim that the two cyber attacks are related to each other.

Until this post is written, it is not known exactly who the mastermind of the attack of cinema Bad Rabbit ransomware. However, in the code ransomware there is the name of a character from the TV series Popular of HBO. It appears that the actor is a fan of the Game of Thrones.