New Brunswick city hardly alone as cyberattacks grow, targeting both large and small organizations
What happened in Saint John has become fairly common.
Ed Dubrovsky, managing partner with cyberattack recovery firm CYPFER, calls it a “digital pandemic,” a space where no one has complete control.In the City of Saint John’s case, the cyberattack came from RYUK, described in city documents obtained through a right to information request, as “a Russian Mafia group.
The system was infiltrated on Oct. 28, 2020, with the attack starting on Nov. 3 and 4. By Nov. 13, the attack “began in earnest,” documents show, resulting in the disconnection of the network and encrypting most Windows-based servers and devices.delaying court cases Saint John did not pay the ransom, choosing instead to rebuild its online network from the ground up, and has maintained there was no indication of a significant breach of information from the city’s network.While it might seem as if it’s a matter of when, not if, an organization will be targeted by cyber criminals, there is good reason to ensure you’re protected.
While in the past, ransomware attacks were more focused on encrypting information, increasingly threat actors are stealing personal information, giving the victim more reason to pay the ransom, Beagan Flood said. From there, threat actors are able to take information and encrypt it, a process whereby information is secured and only the people with a digital key can access it — called decryption. But that digital key comes with a price.
“But even if you are using a VPN, there’s just no way to harden a home environment network as much as you can harden the corporate network,” he added. Now there’s “ransomware as a service” to contend with, something both the Blakes study and Cyber Threat Bulletin credit for an uptick in worsening cyber incidents.Working in a manner similar to a franchise system, individuals looking to start out in the cybercrime arena can pay to gain access to the software necessary to attack and infiltrate systems and encrypt data, Dubrovsky said.
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