Ransomware Hits Three Indian Banks, Causes Millions In Damages (malwarebytes.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Ransomware has locked computers in three major Indian banks and one pharmaceutical company. While the ransom note asks for 1 Bitcoin, so many computers have been infected that damages racked up millions of dollars. According to an antivirus company that analyzed the ransomware, it's not even that complex, and seems the work of some amateur Russians.

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Not too shocking

[Shoten]

Most of these ransomware packages can traverse laterally within an org; they run in the rights context of the user on the first infected computer and use that to infect other systems, spreading within the local network. So if you don't have your permissions properly set up (having "Domain Users" in the local Administrators group on your desktops as a matter of standard, for example), it's a cakewalk for the malware to hit everyone.