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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.
If we all volunteer to kick in a little to the ransom gang, is it possible we could spread it to all HR people worldwide? A world full of hamstrung HR people would allow us to all get direct-hire jobs.
They probably did, and the "applicant" disregarded that. Personally, I think that if you have to trim the pile of resumes/CVs, removing the ones that broke the submission rules and the ones that have serious spelling and/or grammatical mistakes is a good start.
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Found another article,
http://sensorstechforum.com/re...
After the payload file has been downloaded from a link, it will ask for elevation of privilege from the user. That file has a shield icon, so users expect the Windows User Account Control to be triggered. Unsurprisingly, they open it and give it permission, as they don’t suspect that this is a Trojan horse containing the payload for the Petya ransomware.
This is unbelievably stupid. I know, social engineering and all, but why the f$#%k would you click ok to a UAC warning to read a CV?! Cryptolocker I could understand because it just used the current user's credentials, but there is no excuse for getting infected by this.