Security News > 2022 > August > Quantum ransomware attack disrupts govt agency in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic's Instituto Agrario Dominicano has suffered a Quantum ransomware attack that encrypted multiple services and workstations throughout the government agency.
Local media reports that the ransomware attack occurred on August 18th, which has impacted the agency's operation.
Our investigation discovered that the Quantum ransomware operation was behind the attack, which initially demanded a $650,000 ransom from the agency.
Quantum is becoming a major player among enterprise-targeting ransomware operations, linked to an attack on PFC that impacted over 650 healthcare orgs.
The ransomware gang is believed to have become an offshoot of the Conti ransomware operation, which took over the previous rebrand of the MountLocker ransomware operation.
The rebrand to Quantum occurred in August 2021, when their ransomware encryptor switched to adding the.
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