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Earlier last week, a newly identified ransomware affected several computer systems around Europe.
The new strain of ransomware dubbed as ‘Bad Rabbit’ spreading primarily in Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and Germany is utilising one of the leaked NSA’s exploits leaked by WikiLeaks earlier this year. According to several malware researchers and subsequent analysis, an NSA exploit (EternalRomance) was used to distribute itself and move across the network.
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab was monitoring the malware and compared it to the WannaCry and Petya attacks that caused so much chaos earlier this year. Continue reading “New Ransomware dubbed ‘Bad Rabbit’ used NSA’s EternalRomance Exploit”