New Zealand said on Monday that 11 schools and several kindergartens were affected by the ransomware attack.
The fallout of July 2 hack is still coming into focus.
“For all of their big talk on their blog, I think this got way out of hand,” said Allan Liska of cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. “It makes you wonder if they’re having a hard time getting people to pay,” he said.Īnother expert said that the hackers, by encrypting so much data from so many businesses at once, may have bitten off more than they could chew. Reuters was subsequently able to log on to the payment portal and chat with an operator who said the price was unchanged at $70 million “but we are always ready to negotiate.”īecause of REvil’s affiliate structure, it is occasionally difficult to determine who speaks on the hackers’ behalf, but Cable said both conversations suggested that despite the headline $70 million demand “they’re definitely not attached to that number.”
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The REvil ransomware gang, also known as Sodinokibi, is publicly demanding $70 million to restore the data it’s holding ransom after their data-scrambling software affected hundreds of small and medium businesses across a dozen countries – including schools in New Zealand and supermarkets in Sweden.īut in a conversation with Jack Cable of the cybersecurity-focused Krebs Stamos Group, one of the gang’s affiliates said he could sell a “universal decryptor” for all the victims for $50 million.Ĭable told Reuters he managed to get through to the hackers after obtaining a cryptographic key needed to log on to the group’s payment portal.
WASHINGTON:The hackers who have claimed responsibility for an international ransomware outbreak have lowered their asking price in a private conversation with a cybersecurity expert, something he said may be a sign the group was having trouble monetizing their massive breach.
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