Bank Indonesia ransomware attack by Conti hackers leave 13.88 data at stake
John Greenwood
Posted On January 21, 2022
The Conti ransomware group orchestrated an attack on Bank Indonesia last month and the same has been confirmed yesterday by the organization. The ransomware operator stolen some non-sensitive data from BI database, which includes employees data as well.
Pratama Persadha, a cybersecurity expert from CISSReC mentioned that the Conti ransomware operators are the most dangerous hacker group in the world, as they have 100 percent success rate when they target a entity.
Bank Indonesia ransomware attack and its say on the incident
Bank Indonesia’s spokesperson Erwin Haryono mentioned that they were aware of the attack, but appropriate security measures were taken and the public services were working fine. The team is also handling the recover operations regarding the same.
Haryono also added that the attack was executed last month, however, we were able to confirm the same only by yesterday. Though the company didn’t reveal the hackers behind the Bank Indonesia ransomware attack, it was later claimed by Conti ransomware group.
Conti’s role on Bank Indonesia ransomware attack
Conti leaked some files stolen from Bank Indonesia from the database of 13.88 GB proving their claim behind the bank’s ransomware attack. Conti is a ransomware gang which is heavily linked to Moscow through the Wizard Spider entity. The former is the one behind TrickBot, Bazarloader, and Ryuk ransomware attacks.
Conti is known for breaching networks and infecting the devices with malware, and then via those malware the operators will gain remote access to the infected devices. Once inside the network, the hackers ex-filtrate the data and then finally deploy the ransomware payload.
Conti ransomware group is the one behind the Ireland Department of Health ransomware attack, and also had launched around 400 attacks on US and other international organizations.
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