Petya seems designed for disruption, not ransom
Symantec notes that the attack is an ineffective way to make money but a very effective way to disrupt victims, and sow confusion
AS cybersecurity experts try to untangle the puzzle of the Petya ransomware attack that started late on Tuesday, a curious anomaly has come to light.
While Petya is a highly sophisticated piece of malware, comprising as it does the Eternal Blue code allegedly stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA) by a group known as Shadow Brokers, the actual execution of the ransomware attack was very amateurish.
It's almost akin to a group of thugs waylaying victims for a heist, armed with highly advanced automatic weapons, which they inexplicably keep in their bags instead of brandishing them to scare their victims.
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