Cyber Security

@CyberGovAU

Ransomware incident: If you have been affected, contact the Australian Cyber Security Centre on 1300 CYBER1 or visit https://t.co/n475WQ8rkj

Mark Newton

@NewtonMark

Tuesday: "We're going to weaken your encryption, peasants." Wednesday: "Look after your IT security, morons." https://t.co/WZiSHiQXLg

Kevin Mitnick

@kevinmitnick

Hopefully the new ransomware outbreak will become a teachable moment for orgs to apply patches and minimize admin access on user endpoints.

Leon Compton

@LeonCompton

Ransomware attack comes to Tasmania. This is what Cadbury's Hobart computers look like since 9:30pm #ransomware https://t.co/tZIC16oQNH

Dawnstar Australis

@dawnstarau

Reminder that "we left a vulnerable service exposed for quite some time despite known issues" != "We was targeted"

Rik Ferguson

@rik_ferguson

Quick & dirty, to inoculate systems against #Petya Create C:\Windows\perfc.dat as read-only #Petya will fail to execute. Batch it push it.

Security Response

@threatintel

#Petya checks for preexisting infection by looking for its own filename,usually C:\windows\perfc.Creating this file… https://t.co/yMmEBmc4t5

petya_payments

@petya_payments

The bitcoin wallet tied to #Petya/#NotPetya ransomware has so far received 33 payments totaling 3.39803736 BTC ($8,809.69 USD)