Chile Government Agency Servers Under Attack By Ransomware

According to Chile's national computer security and incident response team (CSIRT) the ransomware attack that started on August 25 has hit the Windows and Linux servers of the country's government agency. Threat actors managed to disrupt the work of the virtual machines and encrypt their files adding '.crypt' extension to the filenames. CSIRT also states that the ransomware used in the attack also has credential stealing capabilities along with many other functions. Read more...