Petya or NotPetya That Is The Question

Actually, this latest ransomware outbreak is not Petya. The malware appears to share a significant amount of code with an older piece of ransomware that really was called Petya, but after the outbreak started, security researchers noticed that “the superficial resemblance is only skin deep”.
Researchers at Russia’s Kaspersky Lab redubbed the malware NotPetya, and then folks played the name game and variation like Petna, Pneytna began to spread as a result. As if that didn’t ...