https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/28/15887496/petya-virus-not-actually-ransomware-analysis-shows
>The virus that began spreading through European computers yesterday informed users that they could unlock their machines by paying a $300 ransom. But it looks like the bug’s creators had no intention of restoring the machines at all. In fact, a new analysis reveals they couldn’t; the bug was designed to wipe computers outright.
>Matt Suiche, founder of the cybersecurity firm Comae, writes in a blog post today that after analyzing the virus, known as Petya, his team determined that it was a “wiper,” not ransomware. “We can see the current version of Petya clearly got rewritten to be a wiper and not a actual ransomware,” Suiche writes.
>The virus going around is a modified take on an earlier version of the Petya bug that was true ransomware. But Comae saw that code had been specifically modified to change it from a virus that encrypts a disk and demands a ransom into a virus that simply destroys the disk.
>So then why purport to be ransomware? There’s no way to say for certain right now, but Suiche believes it was about hiding who was really behind the attack. “We believe the ransomware was in fact a lure to control the media narrative,” he writes, saying that ransomware suggests “some mysterious hacker group” being behind the virus “rather than a national state.”
>That’s still speculation for now, but the virus did appear to primarily target Ukrainian infrastructure, including an electricity supplier, the central bank, the state telecom, and an airport. Analysis from Kaspersky Lab yesterday showed the virus remaining primarily in Ukraine.
This is why it's smart to *backup your data*. If your data is backed up, it doesn't matter if it's ransomware or a trojan or a Russian wiper, the best course of action is gonna be to wipe all your shit anyway and replace it with your backup. This is literally computer security 101, and I am constantly amazed by how many corporations with on-staff database and network admins who fail to take even the simple step of making a scheduled backup.
>>153233
>Online security in general
I seriously do not understand why people don't make backups
>>154974
Because most people are either lazy or retarded. I had a guy who asked me if I could "resurrect" his comp when he browsed porn or some shit I guess and got something that corrupted his snit.
>but what if I don't know how to make a backup? It's not my fault I didn't know.
It is if you actually take the time to look up a how to video on doing it instead of looking up porn you dolt
>>154974
Individual people are terrible at risk management, and tape is seen as old fashioned in business now. A tape library is still the most convenient and economical way to take rolling offline backups, but now people are throwing a shitty nas at their data problem and calling it done.