{"id":6118,"date":"2019-09-07T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T12:40:16","slug":"town-avoids-paying-massive-5-million-ransom-in-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/2019\/09\/07\/town-avoids-paying-massive-5-million-ransom-in-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Avoids Paying Massive $5 Million Ransom In Cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rare ransomware case with a happy ending. The city of New Bedford, Mass was hit with a ransomware attack the night of July 4<sup>th<\/sup>. The hackers demanded 5.3 million in bitcoin to release the encrypted city-data. The ransomware included in the attack was Ryuk. Ryuk has unique features where it can encrypt network drives, as well as delete shadow copies on the endpoint resulting in the disabling of the Windows System Restore feature.<\/p>\n<p>City officials lucked out that the attack occurred during a holiday and only 4% of systems were deemed comprised. They decided to contact the hackers using a provided email address and negotiate for the decryption key by offering the city\u2019s allocated insurance payment of $400.000. The negotiation tactic worked, it stalled the payment demands by the hackers, and city officials were able to restore a good portion of data using external backups.<\/p>\n<p>The city exercised its business continuity or disaster recovery plan and was able to restore the compromised data and operations quickly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/06\/758399814\/town-avoids-paying-massive-5-million-ransom-in-cyberattack\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/09\/06\/758399814\/town-avoids-paying-massive-5-million-ransom-in-cyberattack<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a rare ransomware case with a happy ending. The city of New Bedford, Mass was hit with a ransomware attack the night of July 4th. The hackers demanded 5.3 million in bitcoin to release the encrypted city-data. The ransomware included in the attack was Ryuk. Ryuk has unique features where it can encrypt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14230,"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":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}