Petya Ransomware Attack: How To Protect Your PC/Laptop?

The latest ransomware, named Peta, is locking the computer of government offices and is already affecting the Chernobyl nuclear plant and the electricity supplier of Ukraine. Security researcher Amit Sapper found a move against Petia Ransomware to protect his computer.

Last month, we have broadcast WannaCry ransomware at a very fast pace and infected thousands of computers all over the world. Recently, similar attacks were seen in Ukraine banks, the new rainmovie campaign has taken Ukraine banks offline.

The latest randomware attack is locking the computers of government offices and has already influenced the Chernobyl nuclear plant and the electricity supplier of Ukraine.

The latest RandomWare named Petty has infected 60% of computers in Ukraine, after 30% in Russia. The United States, Poland, Britain, Germany and France had recorded the remaining 10% of the infection.

It is said that Petya Ransomware takes advantage of the Infinite Blue vulnerability, which is used by the creators of VKK ransomware to use the same risk.

However, the thong queue software works in a different way. After the transition, this system resides for approximately 10 to 60 minutes, and then restarts the system using 'at', 'scoot' or 'shutdown.exa' utilities. Once rebooted, Ransomware starts to encrypt the MFT table in NTFS partitions and overwrites the MBR with the folder that contains the denial notes.

If you want to read the full details on how Petya Ransomware works, you need to visit Kaspersky’s Securelist blog. According to the reports from Bleeping Computer, Security researcher Amit Serper had somehow managed to find a trick to defend your computer against Petya ransomware.

Amit Serper analyzed the functioning of the box-ransomware and found that if it finds a local file on a disc, its silkwormer will end its encryption process. The findings have been confirmed by some other researchers.

Step 1. First of all, you have to enable Windows extensions. For this, you need to open the folder options and then uncheck the option 'Hide extensions for known file types'.

Step 2. Now you have to go to C: \ Windows and you need to find the Notepad.exe program

Step 3. You have to copy and paste the file into the same folder. Select the file and then press CTRL + C to copy and paste using CTRL + V.

Step 4. Now you will see a new Notepad-copy. You must enter perfc and hit to rename the file. You will be promoted to ensure that you want change or not, just click Yes to continue.

Step 5. Now click on the file and click on 'Properties' and under Properties, select the 'Read-Only' option and then click Apply and then OK.

This is for you to protect your computer, which is against Petya ransomware Share this post with your friends so that they can secure their computer. So, what do you think about this? Share your thoughts in the comment box below.