{"id":36995,"date":"2021-02-25T10:02:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T08:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36995"},"modified":"2025-08-29T09:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:14:42","slug":"hacker-demanded-bitcoins-to-decrypt-a-companys-files-in-zarechny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hacker-demanded-bitcoins-to-decrypt-a-companys-files-in-zarechny\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker demanded bitcoins to decrypt a company&#8217;s files in Zarechny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law enforcement in the town of Zarechny has begun examining a complaint filed by the director of one of the firms. He says he has fallen victim to a hacker demanding cryptocurrency.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ng58.ru\/news\/news\/khaker_potreboval_s_zarechenskogo_predprinimatelya_vykup_kriptovalyutoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">local publication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry, the attacker gained access to the organization&#8217;s server. For decrypting the files and restoring the server, the hacker demanded 0.4 BTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A criminal case has been opened for unlawful access to computer information. An investigation is ongoing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ransomware-damage-since-late-2019-has-topped-1-billion\">data from Group-IB specialists<\/a>, from November 2019 to November 2020 hackers carried out more than 500 public attacks using ransomware. Damages exceeded $1 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law enforcement in the town of Zarechny has begun examining a complaint filed by the director of one of the firms. He says he has fallen victim to a hacker who demanded cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-36995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995","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=36995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36997,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36995\/revisions\/36997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}