Preventing Petya - SonicWall's Position

A few weeks ago businesses were hit with a malware attack that resembled the Petya ransomware, which was first discovered in 2016.

In a recent report by SonicWall, Capture Lab Researchers confirmed that this is definitely not Petya ransomware. In fact, it disguises its self as ransomware but there is no boot sector decryption capability, so in reality, this is a wiper-like attack which is used as a cyber weapon to destruct a targeted system.

The NotPetya attack hit 2,000 users in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, France, Italy, the UK, Germany and the US. This attack has shown to have the possibilities of both financial and operational damage to businesses of all sizes.

One household company affected was Reckitt Benckiser, who lost over £100m in operational damage. So, what can you do to protect your business against advancing threats like NotPetya?

SonicWall thwarted "NotPetya"

SonicWall Capture Labs confirmed in a SonicAlert issued on June 27 that customers had been protected from this cyber attack through both our intrusion prevention service as well as the SonicWall Capture network sandbox prior to the attack.

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