RYUK ransomware attack on the database of Georgia’s Judicial Council and Administrative Office of the Courts is said to have led to a disruption of digital services on a serious note early this week. And the attack looks similar to the one which hit the two municipalities of the Florida City in June this year.
Bruce Shaw, the spokesperson for the Administrative Office of the Courts reported the incident to news resources and said that the official website will remain offline till a malware cleanup has been done.
Shaw added in his statement that not all systems were affected by the ransomware. But as a precautionary measure, most of them were pulled down as they were connected in a network.
The help of a cybersecurity company has been taken to resolve this issue. And details on the ransom demands are being kept under wraps.
Now, to those who aren’t aware of the ransomware incidents which took place on the two municipalities of Florida, here’s a summary on it. Lake City servers were disrupted by ransomware last month forcing the city’s mayor to fire one employee and pay $460,000 worth of USD in bitcoins to the ransomware operators.
Mayor Stephen Witt of the Lake City reported the incident as true and added that an amount of $10,000 in BTC will be recovered from a cyber insurance cover.
Just a few days before the incident, Riviera beach of Florida made it official that it has paid to hackers $600,000 in digital currency to recover from a ransomware attack.
Some Cybersecurity firms like Kaspersky are alleging that the said malware could have been spread by a hacking group from North Korea. However, the UK based ‘Sophos’ argues that it could be the work of hackers from China.
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July 02, 2019 at 10:18AM
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