Ukraine energy ministry website infected by Ransomware

The BBC is reporting that the Ukraines’s energy ministry’s website has been taken off-line by ransomware attack involving two different attacks.

The website currently contains a message written in English, demanding a ransom of 0.1 bitcoin – worth $927.86 (£664.98) by today’s exchange rate…

According to cyber-security research firm AlienVault…, the energy ministry website has been attacked by two different hackers – the first hacker… merely defaced the website.

The security firm believes that a second hacker then came along, encrypted the website’s files, and added a ransomware screen and payment details.

“What has probably happened here is that a hacktivist has hacked the site for fun, then the criminal ransomware attacker has used their backdoor, which you can see at the bottom of the page, to try and make some money,” AlienVault security researcher Chris Doman told the BBC…

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