Petya seems designed for disruption, not ransom

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.