Security News > 2023 > November > Toronto Public Library outages caused by Black Basta ransomware attack
The Toronto Public Library is experiencing ongoing technical outages due to a Black Basta ransomware attack.
The Toronto Public Library is Canada's largest public library system, giving access to 12 million books through 100 branch libraries across the city.
Black Basta ransomware behind attack on TPL. BleepingComputer has since learned that the Black Basta ransomware operation is behind the attack on the Toronto Public Library.
A photo of the ransom note shared with BleepingComputer allowed us to confirm that the ransomware operation was behind the attack.
The Black Basta ransomware gang launched its ransomware operation in April 2022 and quickly began targeting corporate victims in double-extortion attacks.
Like almost all ransomware operations, Black Basta utilizes a Linux encryptor to target VMware ESXi virtual machines running on Linux servers.
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