Virus BadRabbit produced a large-scale attack on major banks of our country.

As representatives of IT companies, which are engaged in protection against cyber attacks, October 24, was made a large-scale attack the computers of organizations of the banking sector. The penetration of the virus into the computer Bank clerk was done by infecting one of the sites on the Internet, disguised as an electronic media.

How figured out the experts on cyber security, a new virus BadRabbit is a type of virus ransomware data NotPetya. The virus, in addition to extortion bitcoins for the decryption of encrypted data, to intercept usernames and passwords, and also gets to the computer administrator access.

The banking system as a whole has increased protection and also after the recent attacks took additional measures in the field of cybersecurity, so the attack BadRabbit were unsuccessful.
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