South Korea pays the largest ransomware ransom ever
According to foreign media reports, hackers appear to have taken a $1 million ransom from South Korea through ransomware. It is understood that more than 153 Linux servers held by South Korean network service provider Nayana have been attacked by ransomware, resulting in over 3,400 sites being locked on June 10. A few days later, Nayana issued a statement on the matter for the first time, saying that the attackers demanded that they pay 550 Bitcoins (about 1.62 million US dollars) to restore the normal operation of these servers. Data map Later, Nayana negotiated with the attacker and eventually pushed the ransom amount to 397 bitcoins (approximately $1 million). In contrast, the whimpered ransomware software WannaCry attacked 200,000 computers in 150 countries, but it eventually received only $127,142 worth of Bitcoin. Learned that Nayana divided the ransom into three payments to the hackers. Now, they have paid 2/3 of the ransom. The third pen will be paid after the first and second ransom servers are back to normal. In recent years, ransomware has become increasingly rampant, and the price of attackers has become higher and higher. For only one year from 2015 to 2016, the ransom has tripled. The highest ransom so far has remained at $287.3 million, but it is clear that Nayana will set a new record. Trend Micros, a network security research company, believes that ransomware that attacks Nayana Linux servers is Erebus. It first appeared on webpage advertisements last year and it reappeared in February this year. In addition, the company's researchers pointed out that such ransomware has very limited coverage, but South Korea is the hardest hit. Blood Pressure Monitor,Blood Pressure Machine,Blood Pressure Checker,Digital Blood Pressure Monitor GANSU PINGLINAG ABAY SCIENCE&TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD , https://www.yzwtech.com