{"id":26841,"date":"2020-08-04T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T12:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=26841"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:59:37","slug":"media-garmin-pays-multi-million-dollar-ransom-to-decrypt-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/media-garmin-pays-multi-million-dollar-ransom-to-decrypt-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Garmin pays multi-million-dollar ransom to decrypt files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin, the smartwatch maker with navigation, paid a ransom to resume operation of its services. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/garmin-paid-multi-million-dollar-ransom-to-criminals-using-arete-ir-say-sources-12041468\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sky News<\/a> reports this.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the company handed over the ransom through the third-party firm Arete IR, which handles such situations. After receiving the transfer, the hackers provided Garmin with a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/garmin-obtains-decryption-key-after-ransomware-attack-12036761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decryption key<\/a> to recover the files.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known whether the hackers received the full sum of $10 million in cryptocurrency. Representatives of Garmin and Arete IR did not deny or confirm that a ransom was paid.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on July 23, Garmin was <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/garmin-smartwatch-makers-face-10-million-cryptocurrency-ransom\">attacked<\/a> by the WastedLocker ransomware, which affected the infrastructure responsible for client interactions, the call centre, chats, the customer-support service and email.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists speculated that Garmin did not make the payment directly due to possible involvement by the Russian group Evil Corp, which is under US sanctions, in creating the virus.<\/p>\n<p>However, Arete IR insisted that the WastedLocker virus is not linked to Evil Corp.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin, the smartwatch maker with navigation, paid a ransom to resume operation of its services. Sky News reports this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-26841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26843,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26841\/revisions\/26843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}