{"id":12135,"date":"2016-05-18T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=12135"},"modified":"2020-02-26T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:09:24","slug":"mischa-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/mischa-ransomware\/12135\/","title":{"rendered":"Mischa: a friend for Petya and yet more ransomware for the rest of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Updated on June 28, 2017]<\/b><\/p>\n

Petya and Mischa are friends. They usually do everything together\u2026.<\/p>\n

Oh, wait, this is not some \u201cRussian for Dummies\u201d book, it\u2019s the Kaspersky Daily blog. So, Petya and Mischa are both ransomware, and they are delivered to the user together, in one package.<\/p>\n

\"Mischa<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are a regular visitor to this blog, or if you keep track of cybersecurity news, you probably know what Petya is. We dedicated two separate posts to it, because in couple of weeks after Petya emerged<\/a> Twitter user @leo_and_stone<\/a> came up with a decryptor for Petya<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Petya stood out from the ransomware crowd because it didn\u2019t just encrypt certain types of files, but rather made the whole hard drive of a computer unreadable by encrypting its Master File Table<\/a>. For this reason, any user who fell victim to Petya needed another PC just to pay the ransom. Well, after leo_and_stone created his encryption tool, Petya victims still needed another PC, but it was to decrypt their files without<\/i> paying the ransom.<\/p>\n

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#Petya<\/a> #ransomware<\/a> eats your hard drives \u2013 https:\/\/t.co\/BSqbmRBmGf<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/WpvijrPlSP<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) March 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n