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PetrWrap Ransomware Is a Petya Offspring Used in Targeted Attacks

  • March 14, 2017
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14th March 2017  By Catalin Cimpanu
 
A heavily modified, but "unauthorized" version of the Petya ransomware has been seen by Kaspersky researchers used in targeted attacks on a small number of organizations.
 
Named PetrWrap, this Petya offspring is part of the arsenal of a new threat actor that's hacking corporate networks and then using the Windows PsExec utility to install PetrWrap on vulnerable servers and endpoints.
 
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