Mecklenburg County in North Carolina experienced additional cyberattacks after it refused to pay $23,000 in ransomware.
County Manager sent an email to warn county employees about the cyberattacks and provided these workers with recommendations.
Mecklenburg County would not pay the ransom, and instead would use backup data to restore government systems that were affected by the cyberattack.
Office of the Tax Collector.
How Can MSSPs Help Organizations Combat Ransomware Attacks?
Encrypt all customer data, regardless of whether it is stored on-premises or in the cloud.
A major ransomware cyberattack that has taken down the Norsk Hydro’s entire worldwide network, affecting operations, worldwide production and their 35,000 employees.
Our entire worldwide network is down.
IT-systems in most business areas are impacted and the company has switched to manual operations where possible.
There have been no personnel safety-related issues.
The company will reinstall from their backup data and will not pay the ransom.
Hydro is working to contain and neutralize the attack, and is yet to know the full extent of the impact.
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Brusaf ransomware is a new member of DJVU family. Alike other, the ultimate aim of this virus is to extort money. It does so by encrypting the targeted files.
Alike its siblings, the malicious crypto virus aims at extorting large amount of money from users.
This article will give you the gist about the menace caused by dangerous .brusaf file virus in targeted system.
Additionally, it may increase the malicious payload in your system.
Even though the sender of such e-mails looks trustworthy or real, you should avoid opening such suspicious e-mails or files.
To conclude, we can say that the main reason for such infiltration is lack of proper knowledge and reckless behavior.
Being the newest member of infamous DJVU ransomware family, Brusaf drops one or more executable files in “%AppData%” windows directory.
