{"id":3232,"date":"2016-09-09T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2016-09-09T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:39:41","slug":"7-cases-when-victims-paid-ransom-to-stop-cyber-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/09\/7-cases-when-victims-paid-ransom-to-stop-cyber-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Cases When Victims Paid Ransom to stop cyber attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article which talks about 7 cases where compromised ransomware victims paid to regain access to their data. The victim&#8217;s vary from police department&#8217;s to a Nascar race team. Payment was made via bitcoin, and in one of the cases, the attacks continued even after the ransom was paid. The attacks were made via DDoS attacks on an email service, and via infected computers from successful phishing scams. This article stresses the importance of security awareness training for employees, and backing up data in separate locations. Payment of ransom only encourages more ransomware campaigns so proactive solutions are imperative. The article also briefly talks about an anti-ransomware site \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackread.com\/no-more-ransom-anti-ransomware-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>\u2018No More Ransom<\/b><b>\u2019<\/b><\/a>&#8216; which was created to assist Internet users by recovering their files for absolutely free to stop them from paying ransom to criminals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackread.com\/top-7-cases-of-ransom-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hackread.com\/top-7-cases-of-ransom-payments\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting article which talks about 7 cases where compromised ransomware victims paid to regain access to their data. The victim&#8217;s vary from police department&#8217;s to a Nascar race team. Payment was made via bitcoin, and in one of the cases, the attacks continued even after the ransom was paid. The attacks were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3237,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions\/3237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}