petya in A Sentence

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    This is Petya. Petya is smart. Be like Petya.

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    A new ransomware dubbed"Petya" started spreading across Europe on Tuesday, affecting businesses and governments that weren't sufficiently protected.

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    When Petya swept across the world in June, it seemed to have originated in Ukraine, where Russian operatives used it in some sort of science-fiction cyberwar.

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    But Despite Petya's status as the most substantial hack on public infrastructure in 2017, it might have been an accident- at least as a means to extract ransom payments from victims.

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    The Petya attack makes use of the same security vulnerability in Windows machines- a U.S. National Security Agency-discovered exploit that was stolen and leaked by a hacking group known as the Shadow Brokers- that allowed the spread of the WannaCry ransomware attack that hit hundreds of thousands of machines in more than 150 countries last month.

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