New Delhi, 30th June 2017: After ‘WannaCry’’, now ‘’Petya’’ ransomware attack is causing massive business disruptions across the world. Stellar Data Recovery®, globally acclaimed data recovery experts have successfully helped victims of this ransomware attack by recovering all data from an infected drive. Stellar’s in-house team of data recovery experts worked on multiple cases they received and provided free consultation to organizations and individuals on how they can recover their data through Stellar’s data recovery software ‘Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery’.
Stellar had earlier released an update to their software “Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery” to help consumers globally, recover their data successfully after the “WannaCry” ransomware attack last month. This software works effectively on drives infected by “Petya” ransomware as well. It is available as a FREE download from: https://www.stellarinfo.com/windows-data-recovery-professional.php and can be used to recover data from ransomware infected, drives.
Stellar also advised to follow the following simple steps in order to avert getting impacted, by ransomware attacks:
- Maintain a healthy backup of all data
- Avoid opening links and files from unknown sources
- Use anti-virus and anti-malware protection & keep them updated
- Avoid visiting untrusted sites
“Frequency of the ransomware attacks has grown tremendously over the past two years. Every attack is more sophisticated than the previous one. This poses a consistent challenge for organizations and consumers worldwide. Our research & development team works hard at creating solutions that are effective and help rescuing consumers & organizations from such situations time and again, reinforcing our commitment towards our customers.‘’ said Mr. Sunil Chandna, CEO, Stellar Data Recovery.
Ransomware "Petya", which started spreading worldwide on Tuesday, breached thousands of computers and servers around the world. It exploits vulnerabilities in user’s operating systems and once it infects any machine in a network, it quickly spreads across all other machines on that network as a forced update. Data on the hard drives of infected systems is encrypted with military grade encryption and a ransomware is demanded to decrypt it.
Stellar is a two decade old, organization which specializes in providing in-lab data recovery services through its state-of-the-art Class 100 Clean Room labs and offers a wide range of software for all popular operating systems.
About Stellar Data Recovery
Stellar Data Recovery is an ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 certified organization specializing in services & software for data recovery, data migration & data erasure. Since 1993, Stellar has served more than 2 million customers globally across 190 countries
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Web: www.stellarinfo.co.in
