And along came Petya

in #hack7 years ago

Petya

If you haven't heard, today a sibling of WannaCry (if you are bold enough to say since it uses leaked NSA tools) showed its ugly face. I wanted to provide a place where you could spring board and get ahead using some of the sources I have compiled. This is definitely an interesting time in the infosec World, or World in general.

Well written articles:

  • One of the earliest articles written about the event, while updating frequently
  • This article is extremely comprehensive and was live updating throughout the beginning of the attack.
  • Last article

Vocal Twitter leaders you can check out.

Some solutions provided by the open source community:

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According to HackerFantastic, if you are infected by the Petya virus and your machine boots and displays this message, do not power the machine on. Your files can be recovered via live boot from an external machine.

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To create a kill switch for the worm, simply create this file:
"C:\Windows\perfc"

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Thanks for reading. If you enjoy compilations of sources like this, let me know.

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hackerfantastic Hacker Fantastic tweeted @ 27 Jun 2017 - 22:00 UTC

The boot loader encryption is an offline process - it'll most likely be crackable to recover encrypted files. #Petya #NotPetya

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