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Since yesterday (24) several computers in Russia and other Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, are displaying the warning in the figure above:
Oops! Your files have been encrypted.
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They were victims of a new ransomware, called the Bad Rabbit, or bad rabbit, in literal translation. A ransomware-type virus “hijacks” your computer, that is, it encrypts data so that no one is able to access it. To decrypt, you need to pay a sum of money to cybercriminals.
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In the case of this attack, they are demanding that the pays the value of $280 in bitcoin. After payment is made, the computer is released. But there is no guarantee that this is actually done.
According to Kaspersky Lab, developer of Kaspersky antivirus, said ransomware was spread via a fake Adobe Flash Player installer. Hackers broke into news sites and deployed fake Flash installer. So, when s accessed such sites, they saw a warning that they needed to update the Adobe plugin.
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Three Russian media outlets were hit, including the agencies Interfax e Fontanka, which are well known in the country. In addition, Odessa Airport, Kiev Metro and the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine also suffered from the Bad Rabbit. To a lesser extent, Turkey and have also fallen victim to ransomware.
The virus Bad Rabbit primarily targets corporate networks, infecting machines that are on the same local network. Like other ransomware, it uses the Windows SMB protocol to spread between computers. By the way, SMB is an extremely old Windows protocol and should preferably be disabled.
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Together, ransomware attacks add up to $25 million in damages
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It is not yet known who is behind the Bad Rabbit. Also in the hijacking message, the virus instructs victims to access a website via the Tor network and pay 0,05 Bitcoin within 40 hours. After the deadline, the value increases gradually.
The only clue we have about the virus developer is that he is a Game of Thrones fan. O Bad Rabbit creates two tasks on Windows named after Daenerys Targaryen's dragons.
In this link you can see a “recipe” on how to avoid being invaded by this new ransomware. Just create these two empty files in Windows: C:\windows\infpub.dat e C:\windows\cscc.dat. Then remove all permissions from them such as read, write and others. In this way, theoretically, you will be protected from this new threat.
