Security News > 2022 > May > National bank hit by ransomware trolls hackers with dick pics
After suffering a ransomware attack by the Hive operation, the Bank of Zambia made it clear that they were not going to pay by posting a picture of male genitalia and telling the hackers to s. Last week, the Bank of Zambia, the country's central bank, disclosed that recent technical outages resulted from a cyberattack.
"The Bank of Zambia wishes to inform members of the public that it experienced a partial disruption to some of its Information Technology applications on Monday 9th May 2022," disclosed the bank in a press release.
"The disruption, which affected some systems at the Bank such as the Bureau De Change Monitoring System and the Website, emanated from a suspected cybersecurity incident. We wish to advise that these systems have since been fully restored."
While the Bank of Zambia did not disclose the details of the cyberattack, BleepingComputer learned that the attack was conducted by the Hive ransomware operation, which claimed to have encrypted the bank's Network Attached Storage device.
They then proceeded to post a link to a dick pic while stating, "Suck this dick and stop locking bank networks thinking that you will monetize something, learn to monetize."
Nsofu said, "So we pretty much told them where to get off," confirming that it was someone affiliated with the bank who responded to Hive.