Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro says a ransomware attack that started late Monday night interrupted production at company facilities in North America and Europe, Bloomberg reports. Unknown attackers reportedly switched “potlines” to manual mode during the attack. Potlines are used to keep metal molten and… Read More
Officials in Jackson County, Georgia, have relented and paid a $400 000 ransom in bitcoins to restore county IT systems disabled by Ryuk ransomware since March 1st, Bank Info Security reports. The FBI and local law enforcement are now investigating the attack. Jackson County now… Read More
Ryuk ransomware has been used to lock up files at Boston’s Committee for Public Counsel Services, a public defenders office that provides lawyers to those who cannot afford them, The Boston Globe reports. Fortunately, the agency was able to refuse to pay a cryptocurrency ransom… Read More
In January, a private heart clinic located in a Melbourne’s Cabrini hospital had 15 000 patients’ medical records locked in a ransomware attack that emanated from Russia or North Korea, 9News reports. A cryptocurrency ransom to unlock the data was subsequently demanded. The records were… Read More
Researchers at Crowdstrike, FireEye, Kryptos Logic, and McAfee are all reporting that ransomware known as Ryuk is, in fact, being proliferated by professional hack groups in Russia, and not by North Koreans, ZDNet reports. According to the outlet: “The era of individual ransomware operations appears to be ending, with fewer… Read More
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