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- Petya is a family of encrypting ransomwarethat infects the master boot record and encrypts the NTFS file table, demanding a payment in Bitcoin in order to regain access to the system.
- The malware specifically targets Microsoft Windows-based systems.
- Ukraine has emerged as the epicenter of the attack with 60 per cent of the systems infected as reported by Kaspersky.
