The cyber-attack was feared to spread globally much like the recent Petya ransomware attack. Researchers at security firms FireEye, ESET, Kaspersky, McAfee, and Avira who have been tracking the ransomware told Motherboard that the servers used by hackers to infect systems with a malware are now down. Avira, Symantec and other security also confirmed that the server used in the attack had stopped after a few hours. BadRabbit has been linked to the Petya ransomware, which attacked computers globally earlier this year. ESET found that the malware used for the cyber-attack was Diskcoder.D - a variant of the Petya ransomware.

Source: India Today October 26, 2017 09:00 UTC