Infected by “Interfax”, “Fontanka” and the Kiev metro. New virus epidemic?
Hackers attacked several companies in Russia and Ukraine. At the moment we know that in addition to the above-mentioned organizations suffered the Odessa airport. Virus ransomware demands bitcoins for unlocking computers. At the time of writing the news site of “Interfax” is still not available. The Agency published photos of working PC, where you can see the criminals ‘ demands and the amount of repayment, the press service of the online told details about the incident.
“We were under attack. Experts are working to resolve the problem. Details we do not know”, — told the press service of “Interfax” of RBC.
In addition, the company published a record in the social network Vkontakte, saying that they are already addressing the problem.
“Due to the viral attack any failures in the servers of Interfax. Currently, the technical service shall take all steps to restore operation of systems. We apologize to readers and subscribers!” — commented the representatives of “Interfax” via Vkontakte.
Judging by the photos, the computers of “Interfax” encrypted virus-the extortioner Bad Rabbit. For unlocking data hackers asking for 0.05 BTC or 16 000 rubles. Now the Agency has turned off the primary server and ready to work backup.
A cyber attack on your own server, and told the St. Petersburg online newspaper “Fontanka”.
Server “Fontanka” has undergone to hacker attack. The website can be offline for several hours. We continue to make the news. Follow us on our official accounts in social networks.
Later on the hacker attack reported and the Kiev metro. Administration “subway” reported non-performing contactless payments with Bank cards and also advised to temporarily use tokens and passes.
Other victims of hacking — the airport of Odessa and the Internet portal of the Ministry of infrastructure of Ukraine.
Source: rbc.ru
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