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No cases of NotPetya ransomware in Malaysia currently
Posted by SGCS Admin, 30-06-2017PETALING JAYA: There have been no reported cases of the NotPetya ransomware threat in Malaysia. However, CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) chief executive officer Datuk Dr Amirudin Abdul Wahab cau...
More than half of major malware attack’s victims are industrial targets
Posted by SGCS Admin, 30-06-2017A new report from cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs examining the targets — and intended effects — of this week’s massive malware attack comes up with some significant insights. The...
Police Suggest Petya Ransomware Attack Was a Distraction
Posted by SGCS Admin, 30-06-2017The primary target of a crippling computer virus that spread from Ukraine across the world this week is highly likely to have been that country's computer infrastructure, a top Ukrainian police offici...
3 Things You Can Do To Stop 'NotPetya' Ransomware Wrecking Your PC
Posted by SGCS Admin, 29-06-2017It looks as though the NotPetya ransomware that slammed European companies yesterday, including a load of Ukraine's critical infrastructure providers, isn't spreading much further. But if you're frett...
Surprise! NotPetya Is a Cyber-Weapon. It's Not Ransomware
Posted by SGCS Admin, 29-06-2017The NotPetya ransomware that encrypted and locked thousands of computers across the globe yesterday and today is, in reality, a disk wiper meant to sabotage and destroy computers, and not ransomware. ...
New 'Petya' Ransomware Attack Spreads: What to Do
Posted by SGCS Admin, 28-06-2017Less than six weeks after the massive WannaCry attack, a second Windows ransomware worm made its way around the planet today (June 27). The ransomware, which we'll call Petya at the risk of being tec...