NotPetya isn't your typical ransomware

Ransomware is often considered a somewhat low-stakes annoyance: in most cases, the data itself doesn’t leave the network and public operations aren’t compromised. NotPetya changed the game -- it’s shown us the potential of how wildly damaging ransomware infections can be from here on out. It can feel like science fiction at times, but is now utterly reasonable to consider any data or device with a CPU and memory on your network as something that can be held hostage by ransomware. Ransomware has proven to be a lucrative endeavor: more and more central and important systems are being targeted. Cryptolocker targeted… [Continue Reading]