Blog post written by Ladislav Zezula, Jakub Kroustek and Martin Hron
Yesterday, a new ransomware strain, BadRabbit, began spreading. This time, cybercriminals used popular Russian news sites to spread the ransomware. Despite recycling some of NotPetya’s code, BadRabbit did not spread as pervasively as WannaCry or NotPetya. It did, however, manage to infect the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Odessa’s airport, Kiev’s subway and two Russian media groups.