Latest Ransomware

TNT in the system is never good.

Jk aside, this is going to run and run, every few months forever,  It seems.

More than rumour Ed:     https://tinyurl.com/yb9c8m9o

” A growing number of security experts, including the British malware expert Marcus Hutchins – credited with ending the WannaCry ransomware outbreak – claim to have logs that reveal (Ukrainian tax-filing software)  MEDoc as the source. ”

Note that Russia is proud of not having suffered an attack…

Ed P wrote:

Not true wrt Russia Bob: “The Russian anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab said its analysis showed that there had been about 2,000 attacks – most in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.”

I cannot find the part of the report in (I think) RT which initially had some Russian figurehead boasting that Russian business was not affected, Ed. After visiting yesterday’s Beeb report, I see that a lot of Russian business is affected, including Antonov, Rosneft, (biggest Russian oil business) and Chernobyl monitoring software.

I humbly apologise to the Russian state, which is a strange thing for me to have to say!

Not just destructive to one PC Bob, it appears it actively searches your network then uses some modified NSA tricks to hit all M$ OSs whether using SMB or not. Looks like full off-line backups may be an essential defence.

Not really Bob. There are some simple steps that can be taken such as using a Sandbox  (Sandboxie?) or Linux VM for all your browsing/emails. Ditto just using a Smartphone to do the same. This would however require that anything transferred to a PC would need a darned good scan before use.