**URGENT PSA** NotPetya/Petya: What You Need to Know and What to do (Vaccine)

[bulleth]

A new ransomware attack has occurred overnight, infecting banks and critical infrastructure in the Ukraine, a hospital in the US and even the Cadbury Chocolates factory in Australia.

(Symantec via Forbes.com)

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DO NOT SEND ANY BITCOIN TO THE ADDRESS - THE EMAIL ACCOUNT HAS BEEN TERMINATED - YOU WILL NOT GET YOUR FILES BACK

Symantec have labeled the ransomware NotPetya as it is a derivative of the Petya virus, but is much more advanced. This attack uses the same EternalBlue NSA hack, but is more resilient than WannaCry and could do a lot more damage.

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NOTPETYA AFFECTS ALL WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEMS, INCLUDING WINDOWS 10

NOTPETYA ENCRYPTS YOUR FILES WHEN YOU BOOT UP YOUR COMPUTER.

IF YOU SEE THE DISK REPAIR SCREEN ON BOOT, POWER DOWN YOUR COMPUTER IMMEDIATELY.

Thanks to HackerFantastic on Twitter:

THE VACCINE

TO IMMUNIZE YOUR COMPUTER AGAINST THIS ATTACK, SIMPLY DOWNLOAD AND RUN THIS BATCH FILE

IF YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE DOING THIS, OR WOULD LIKE TO DO MANUALLY, FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS FROM BLEEPINGCOMPUTER.COM

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Comments

[litcoinkid]

Thanks the the heads up :)

[bulleth]

No worries mate

[twitterbot]

Hacker Fantastic tweeted @ 27 Jun 2017 - 20:09 UTC

#Petya encrypts ON BOOT. If you see CHKDSK message your files not yet encrypted, power off immediately. You can rec… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

Disclaimer: I am just a bot trying to be helpful.

[bulleth]

Thanks little bot man, don't know what we'd do without you!

[franklynx]

thanks for the post. it says this affects Windows. Is MAC excluded?

[bulleth]

No worries, I believe mac's are fine. Though if you have a copy of Windows installed on your Mac, you'd want to apply the vaccine above.

Back in the day, viruses were pretty much unheard of for Mac, but they are a lot more common these days. This is a good article on Mac ransomware.

[hamzaoui]

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