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You might still remember the devastating and one of the most damaging global cyber attacks of 2017 – NotPetya Ransomware attack ! It caused massive disruption in Ukraine and across computers globally in June 2017. Major countries that were hit by NotPetya are United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine and Russia. Like WannaCry Ransomware , the attack had a global reach and impacted organizations worldwide .Until now, no NotPetya Ransomware Removal Tool has been developed. It was initially thought to be the strain of the Petya Ransomware Virus which was discovered in the year 2016 but later it was discovered that NotPetya Ransomware resembles Petya just superficially. It is more dangerous and hence referred to as “NotPetya”. In 2017, the first to be hit by NotPetya Malware were the banks, Ukrainian government, other financial organizations and airports of Ukraine. The losses which were reported amounted to $ 200-300 million as per Maersk and $300 million as per FedEx. White ...

What is DriedSister Ransomware? The DriedSister Ransomware is a Japanese file encrypting ransomware which was created by malicious developers in order to generate revenue. This ransomware infects and encrypts all your important files by renaming the program file with a strange file extension that is .干物妹. So if your document file name was Word.doc, then it will change to Word.doc.干物妹after ransomware encryption. This nasty infection once installed, will not allow you to access your important data. There is no known ransomware removal tool available till date that has a sure shot solution to this infection. The DriedSister ransomware in Japanese is spelled as “下 物 妹” which in English Is pronounced as “Irisimoimoto.”     Threat Summary The DriedSister ransomware is a malicious program which contaminates the user’s system and encrypts the data in order to generate revenue for its developers. • Name – DriedSister Ransomware • Targeted Operating System – Win...

The year 2017 saw the discovery of an adware named “Fireball” by the security firm called Check Point. The said malware or adware had infected over 250 millions of systems including Windows and Mac OS all across the globe this year. The country which was worst affected by this Chinese operation was India along with Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia and United States being the other top countries that were affected.    Basically, Fireball was used as a Browser Hijacking Malware that got spread mostly via bundling with wanted program and used to change the default search engines and home page of the user to Rafotech Search Engine (Rafotech is a large digital marketing agency which used Fireball to manipulate the user’s search engine and is based in Beijing, China). The malware also collects private and sensitive information regarding the user and also their browsing habits. Fireball intended to redirect the users to specific web pages and making revenue through the clicks on the ads...