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Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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I thought the main issues were caused by NotPetya?
Seems actual backing up of data is in order. Funny, that's never, ever, in the history of computing comne up before.
Really, back up it up properly or assume it's going to disappear.
Indeed, from what I have heard from somebody affected (I believe my friend but you need not, no more info will be given) the issues seem to have mainly been caused by the Unranian accounting software which ran as admin and auto-updated to include the malicious software. After that it turned out that backups were not really backups and PCs all had to be rebuilt.
Ransomware spike blamed on easy-to-use malware builders
"Security experts say a sharp increase in ransomware attacks is in part a result of how easy the malware is to acquire.
Researchers at Cylance and AlienVault were able to find off-the-shelf ransomware using a normal search engine, which could then be used to lock victims' computer files and blackmail them."
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