When it comes to the Goldeneye strain, its allegation of the machine’s entire HDD being encrypted is bluff. This category of perpetrating code is particularly dangerous, because it does not even allow victims to boot into the operating system. The proliferation geography is likely to expand soon, though. The majority of infections are localized to Germany at this point, just like it was at the dawn of the predecessor’s extortion campaign. As of December 6, 2016, numerous computer users are reporting attacks by a crypto virus sample calling itself the Goldeneye ransomware. The nefarious craft of the Petya disk-encrypting ransomware is continuing with a new, slightly modified incarnation.
Similarly to its prototype called Petya, the new Goldeneye ransomware overwrites the Master Boot Record on PCs and demands a ransom to unlock the system.