What you need to know about the NotPetya ransomware

A laptop displays a message after being infected by a ransomware as part of a worldwide cyberattack on June 27, 2017 in Geldrop. The unprecedented global ransomware cyberattack has hit more than 200,000 victims in more than 150 countries, Europol executive director Rob Wainwright said May 14, 2017. Britain's state-run National Health Service was affected by the attack. / AFP PHOTO / ANP / Rob Engelaar / Netherlands OUT

The ransomware that is currently making headlines around the world is in fact not Petya.

Cybersecurity company Kaspersky said that its preliminary findings suggest that the ransomware is not a variant of Petya as publicly reported, but is a new ransomware – thus the name NotPetya.