2018年8月22日 · NotPetya was propelled by two powerful hacker exploits working in tandem: One was a penetration tool known as EternalBlue, created by the US National Security Agency but leaked in a disastrous ...

Security experts found that the version of Petya used in the Ukraine cyberattacks had been modified, and consequently was renamed NotPetya or Nyetna to distinguish it from the original malware.

The NotPetya attacks have been blamed on the Russian government, specifically the Sandworm hacking group within the GRU Russian military intelligence organization, by security researchers, Google, and several governments.

In February 2018, the U.S. government called NotPetya “the most destructive and costly cyber-attack in history.” And for good reason. The attack hit over 2,300 organizations across more than 100 countries, with estimated losses of $10 billion.

2018年2月15日 · This variant of the Petya malware—referred to as NotPetya—encrypts files with extensions from a hard-coded list. Additionally, if the malware gains administrator rights, it encrypts the master boot record (MBR), making the infected Windows computers unusable. NotPetya differs from previous Petya malware primarily in its propagation methods.

On June 27, 2017, the eve of Ukraine’s Constitution Day holiday, a major global cyberattack was launched, infecting more than 80 companies in that country using a brand-new cyber pathogen...

NotPetya is malware that was used by Sandworm Team in a worldwide attack starting on June 27, 2017. While NotPetya appears as a form of ransomware, its main purpose was to destroy data and disk structures on compromised systems; the attackers never intended to make the encrypted data recoverable.

Strengthening email security practices: Most Petya attacks, and some NotPetya attacks, started with an infected email attachment. To prevent this, organizations can scan emails for malware, block email attachments from external sources, and …

2023年6月6日 · Occurring just over a month after the similarly infamous WannaCry ransomware attack, the NotPetya attack paralyzed operations at multinational corporations across a wide swath of critical infrastructure sectors including healthcare, energy, and transportation — resulting in an estimated $10 billion in damages.

NotPetya was a modified version of Petya, using two known exploits for older Windows versions: EternalBlue and Mimikatz. The former is a digital skeleton key that was disclosed in a catastrophic NSA data breach in early 2017. It enables outsiders remote access to run their own code.