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Petya Ransomware Uses DOS-Level Lock Screen, Prevents OS Boot Up (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A new type of ransomware was discovered that crashes your PC into a BSOD, restarts your computer, and then prevents your OS from starting by altering the hard drive's master boot record (MBR). This keeps the user locked in a DOS screen that doubles as the ransomware's ransom note. The ransomware's name is Petya, and was currently seen only targeting HR departments in Germany.
Sigh. Yet another thing WINE won't run.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Black hat virus writers are a bunch of bad guys, but it would be some next level evil to turn a Macintosh computer to boot into Dos or Windows.
God spoke to me
"Ransom gang" has such a negative connotation.
How about calling them "workplace productivity enhancement team" or "employee happiness consultancy"?
But when you do, you boot from DOS XX.
Some jokes never get old.
Other ones... get integrated into the next version of systemd.
How can it? Petya is a diminutive of the Russian name Petr or Peter for the English speakers. Petya is a little boy, running him on wine is illegal even in Russia ;)
You can't handle the truth.