Government officials in Argentina are refusing to negotiate with a group of ransomware hackers that forced them to close all immigration checkpoints for a short period on 27 August.
According to a report yesterday, Sunday, from Bliping Computer, a group of hackers in the ransomware Netwalker program broke into the Argentine immigration agency on August 27 and initially demanded $ 2 million to restore its servers. .
and in the text of the ransom note on a payment page on Tor that was sent to the Migration Agency: Your files are encrypted ... The only way to decrypt files is to purchase a decryption program Encryption.
The group posted a select batch of sensitive data from the agency as evidence that it was responsible for the breach. A week later, the hackers increased the ransom to nearly 4 million dinars of Bitcoin digital currency.
The Argentine news agency InfoBay stated that the attack effectively stopped all border crossings to and from the country for four hours.
During the lockdown, Argentine authorities shut down all computer networks used by immigration officials at regional offices and checkpoints.
According to the Queen Telegraph, government officials have said that they will not negotiate with the hackers and are not interested in recovering the stolen data.
Although ransomware hackers are not bound by borders, the situation in Argentina is a rare example of a cyber attack affecting a national government agency.
(Amazon Fun Knowledge)
