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Office supplies biz owned by UK council shrugs off ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoin
2020-06-02 17:37

A Brit public sector-owned office supplies company shrugged off a ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoins after a staffer opened a phishing email.

A local blogger, publishing the Vox Medway site, claimed the attack froze all CSG services at 01:30 UK time on 2 April.

CSG is a rather far-reaching commercial organisation that resells office supplies and, latterly, personal protective equipment to various customers up and down the nation including some local councils.

In a statement Kent County Council told us: "On the 2nd April 2020 Commercial Services was subject to a ransomware attack which encrypted a significant number of its systems and data. This current and malicious 'malware' managed to avoid 3 levels of professional IT security. This sophisticated attack allowed the criminals to access CSG's systems and encrypt a significant amount of data. The cause of the attack bears the hallmarks of starting with a phishing email that was used to introduce a virus that would compromise the network for further attack."

Perhaps 2020 marks a turning point, for British companies at least, in fobbing off the tactics of frustrated ransomware criminals.


News URL

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/06/02/kent_commercial_services_group_ransomware/

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