What is Bad Rabbit Ransomware? Ransomware attacks are on the rise and, the recent one that’s making headlines this week is the Bad Rabbit Ransomware. The malware is said to be linked to the previously released Petya ransomware and inspired by Game of Thrones as the code contains references to the Dragons featured in it. Bad Rabbit ransomware has affected corporate and media houses in Russia and Ukraine and appears to be affecting Turkey and…
What is “WannaCry’? WannaCry is a ransomware attack that has (in)famously brought much of the world’s computers and servers to a complete standstill including critical systems such as UK’s healthcare network, Russia’s government systems and those of the Indian state, Andhra Pradesh. It makes use of an SMB (Server Message Block) vulnerability on Windows systems and spread rapidly across networks. How does it work and where did it originate? Many experts suspect that WannaCry aka WannaCrypt was…