NCC Group discovers network-saving quirk during worm tests
By Gareth Corfield 3 Dec 2018 An infosec firm has unleashed a NotPetya-style worm onto a customer’s network – and discovered that a simple Windows Active Directory tweak has a surprising effect on self-spreading malware.In the wake of the outbreak of NotPetya – so-called because it masquerades as Petya ransomware – one of NCC Group's customers asked the firm to create a safer version of the malware, which rampaged through half the world's computers in 2017, encrypting files and destroying Windows machines' master boot records.
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