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The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MSTIC) has discovered evidence of a new ransomware campaign targeting shipping and logistics companies in Ukraine and Poland. This was reported on Microsoft’s
This was reported on Microsoft’s blog, Ukrinform reports.
As noted, on October 11, within an hour, the previously unidentified Prestige ransomware attacked a wide variety of systems.
This program encrypts the victim’s data and leaves a ransom note stating that the data can only be unlocked by purchasing a decryption tool.
It has not yet been determined who exactly was behind the attacks. But according to Microsoft experts, they resemble early attacks by a Russian government-affiliated cybergroup.
Specifically, the targets of the new ransomware coincide with victims of another data destruction cyberattack involving the FoxLoad or HermeticWiper malware. Reuters writes that this attack affected hundreds of computers in Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia at the start of a full-scale Russian invasion.
More than a dozen American websites, including several of the largest US airports, were blocked Monday as a result of cyberattacks, for which Russian-speaking hackers claimed responsibility, Ukrinform reported.
Source: Ukrinform
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