{"id":32576,"date":"2020-11-30T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=32576"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T06:21:45","slug":"delaware-county-authorities-paid-hackers-500000-in-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/delaware-county-authorities-paid-hackers-500000-in-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County authorities paid hackers $500,000 in Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delaware County information systems in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania were hit by a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack. Authorities paid the attackers $500,000 in Bitcoin, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/pennsylvania-county-pays-500k-ransom-to-doppelpaymer-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bleeping Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The attack did not affect the voting and emergency-response systems. The ransomware operators gained access to police reports, payment documents, procurement information, and other databases.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFor the investigation of the incident, cybersecurity specialists have been invited to determine the nature and scope of the breach. We are working to restore the functionality of the systems,\u201d said county officials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following the transfer of the ransom, the hackers advised authorities to change passwords and provided guidance on Windows domain configuration to activate protection against the Mimikatz utility.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, specialists from Positive Technologies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cybersecurity-experts-report-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks\">discovered<\/a> that cyber extortionists have shifted from mass to targeted attacks. Their victims are large companies capable of paying sizeable ransoms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ransomware-damage-since-late-2019-has-topped-1-billion\">entered<\/a> the ranks of the five most dangerous ransomware families, alongside NetWalker, Ryuk, Maze and REvil.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forkloglive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog FEED<\/a> \u2014 full feed of news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delaware County information systems in Pennsylvania were hit by a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack. Authorities paid the attackers $500,000 in Bitcoin, according to Bleeping Computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32577,"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":[1154,26],"class_list":["post-32576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"36","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576","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=32576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32578,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions\/32578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}