Good News if you are using Sophos Endpoint Protection and/or Intercept X Security Products

Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 9:29PM
Bob Appleby in Cyber Security, NakedSecurity, Security, Sophos

Sophos Stops Petya Ransomware

As with the recent WannaCry Ransomware attack, organizations around the world have again been affected by a new ransomware variant known as the Petya cyber-attack. We wanted to contact you to offer our advice and support.
Customers using Sophos Endpoint Protection are protected against all known variants of this ransomware. We first issued protection on June 27th at 13:50 UTC and have provided several updates since then to provide further protection against possible future variants.
In addition, customers using Sophos Intercept X were proactively protected with no data encrypted from the moment this new ransomware variant appeared.
Find out more about Intercept X and how it can protect your customers from ransomware like Petya and Wanna:

Further Information

Sophos KB: New variant of Petya ransomware
NakedSecurity:  Deconstructing Petya: how it spreads and how to fight back

Article originally appeared on Bobs Tech Talk News and Reviews (http://www.bobstechtalk.com/).