What is the virus Petya? The ransomware has infected the computers of companies around the world
What is the virus Petya? The ransomware has infected the computers of companies around the world In the afternoon of 27 June in Ukraine and in Russia, and later in other countries began to spread the virus is ransomware that locks access to the data and demands $ 300 in bitcoins per unlock. The virus in various modifications known in 2016. Apply it, like many other malware, through spam for example, the first version of the Petya disguised as summary. Scheme Petya had already been described by security professionals. More detail on the mechanism of virus-ransomware was described in April 2016 in the blog of Malwarebytes Labs. Then the virus spread like a letter with a summary of the employee by clicking on it a Windows program that required admin rights. If an inattentive user agrees, then the installer copied the boot sector of the hard drive and showed “blue