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Energy Giant Enel Group Hit with $17,000,000 Bitcoin Ransomware Attack
Summary: Enel Group, an Italian multinational energy company, has been hit with a ransomware attack. Its network of computers was infected with a popular strain of Windows ransomware called NetWalker. It is reported that NetWalker hackers released screenshots of about 5 TB of stolen data and threatened to publish its first batch of data within a ...
Enel Group, an Italian multinational energy company, has been hit with a ransomware attack. Its network of computers was infected with a popular strain of Windows ransomware called NetWalker. It is reported that NetWalker hackers released screenshots of about 5 TB of stolen data and threatened to publish its first batch of data within a week, forcing Enel Group to pay 1234 bitcoins (about $16.8 million).
By Amy Liu
Tags: Bitcoin,Enel Group,energy,Ransomware
Link: Energy Giant Enel Group Hit with $17,000,000 Bitcoin Ransomware Attack [Copy]
