Security News > 2021 > March > Ryuk ransomware hits 700 Spanish government labor agency offices
The systems of SEPE, the Spanish government agency for labor, were taken down following a ransomware attack that hit more than 700 agency offices across Spain.
SEPE director Gerado Guitérrez confirmed that the agency's network systems were encrypted by Ryuk ransomware operators after the incident.
The attack has caused hundreds of thousands of appointments made through the agency throughout Spain to be delayed, according to CSIF, a Spanish labor union of administration workers.
Ryuk is currently at the top of RaaS rankings, with payloads delivered by its affiliates discovered in about one in three ransomware attacks throughout the last year.
The Spanish labor agency is not the high-profile Spanish ransomware victim.
Everis, one of Spain's largest managed service providers, and Cadena SER, Spain's largest radio station, also had their computer systems encrypted in a November 2019 ransomware attack.