Security News > 2020 > May > Transport biz Toll Group suffers second ransomware infection in just three months
Transport company Toll Group has been slugged by ransomware for the second time in three months.
"As a result of investigations undertaken so far, we can confirm that this activity is the result of a ransomware attack. Working with IT security experts, we have identified the variant to be a relatively new form of ransomware known as Nefilim."
Toll was hit by a variant of the Mailto ransomware in early February 2020 and decided to "Immediately isolate and disable some systems in order to limit the spread of the attack".
Ransomware attacks are a fact of life, but also preventable.
While Toll has copped two new strains and they can be hard to defend, $8.7bn companies utterly dependent on IT to track countless shipments are supposed to have robust defences in place.