Security News > 2021 > April > Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants' Info If Ransom Is Not Paid

The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack.

The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police's networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files.

Also called the DC Police, the MPD is the primary law enforcement agency for the District of Columbia in the U.S. The ransomware gang has given the department three days to heed to their ransom demand or risk leaking sensitive files that could expose police informants to criminal gangs.

"Hello! Even an institution such as DC can be threatened, we have downloaded a sufficient amount of information from your internal networks, and we advise you to contact us as soon as possible, to prevent leakage, if no response is received within 3 days, we will start to contact gangs in order to drain the informants, we will continue to attack the state sector of the usa, fbi csa, we find 0 day before you, even larger attacks await you soon," the ransomware group said on their data leak site.

The syndicate is also known for attacking Linux-based systems such as VMware ESXi.

"The Babuk gang highlighted the key problem that all organizations face when confronting threats, and that is speed," Cymulate CTO Avihai Ben-Yossef said.

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