(Rejected) UNITED KINGDOM (UK) COMPANY PAID USD2.3MILLION TO CYBERCRIMINALS
According to recent report, a company based in the Uk in an information paid a hacker almost the sum of $2.3m Bitcoin after facing an attack on January 11, base on the wall street journal on 9 April, the UK firm networks was tampered by a group of cybercriminals with a form of malware at early year and before 2020. The company is located in airports and tourist sites around the word and it prerequisite and requisite for its chain exchange cubicle. The attack was proved by Travelex to the press shortly after it happened, there never told any body that they paid the sum of around 285 Bitcoin BTC after thier system have been off-line for weeks. the attack was known to be called sodinokibi and it is as a ransomware attack inform of malware which things like CDH investment was stolen.
COVID-19 RANSOMWARE INFORM OF MALWARE AT HIGH SPEED INCREASING
The officials of US keep alarming that hackers are more active than body else because of the present situation of global epidemic COVID-19 and employees to be at alart from thier different home pace, the report keep saying that cybercriminals are as a watch dog of networks looking for opportunities to devor the ones that are not monitored due to the COVID-19 lockdown, to stop the wide spread.
INVESTIGATIONS STILL GOING ON
Investigations of the criminals by the British authorities are still in progress according to Travelex consulted spokesman base on the ransomware attack. It is to be noted that it is not illegal to pay ransom in the United kingdom UK and that defaultees should stop oneself fom such or refrain from giving into the needs of criminals for it will do them no good.