Security News > 2020 > November > Brazil's court system under massive RansomExx ransomware attack
Brazil's Superior Court of Justice was hit by a ransomware attack on Tuesday during judgment sessions that were taking place over video conference.
"The Superior Court of Justice announces that the court's information technology network suffered a hacker attack on Tuesday, during the afternoon, when the six group classes' judgment sessions took place," STJ President Humberto Martins said in an official statement on the Supreme Federal Court's website.
"The Secretariat for Information and Communication Technology is working on systems recovery to restore all court services as quickly as possible."
Two days after the ransomware attack took place, the Superior Court of Justice website and systems are still offline until all systems will be fully restored.
According to an anonymous source, Pernambuco State Court of Justice systems were also hit by RansomExx on October 27, with their files being encrypted using the.
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