{"id":16748,"date":"2020-07-26T04:35:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T02:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2020-10-13T13:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T11:58:50","slug":"ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/blog-ciberseguridad\/ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin outage caused by confirmed WastedLocker ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/garmin-outage-caused-by-confirmed-wastedlocker-ransomware-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BleepingComputer<\/a>, a Garmin employee has confirmed that the cause of the interruption of their services was an attack with the WastedLocker ransomware from Evil Corp, a group of cybercriminals based in Russia.<br \/>\nThere is talk about the ransom of the data for 10 million dollars, although there is also speculation that points to a greater amount of money. The company has not officially commented on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The question that arises now is whether the company will give in to blackmail.<br \/>\nHistory has made it clear to us that it is not advisable to pay, so we have impressive examples like WannaCry or Cryptolocker.<br \/>\nOn more than one occasion, companies have paid cybercriminals to ransom their files and they have done nothing to return the data while letting the ransomware continue to function.<\/p>\n<p>Author: Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Pe\u00f1a. IT Project Director. Director of the Master in Cybersecurity Management, Ethical Hacking and Offensive Security at the EIP. Passionate about Cybersecurity and addicted to sports<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of cybercriminals based in Russia in which they talk about the ransom of data for 10 million dollars.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":16749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-ciberseguridad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eiposgrados.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}