The ultimate target of hackers Zambia’s central bank it happened. Khiva Bank of Zambia’s networks became inaccessible after cyber attacks by the hacker group. Hackers also by uploading a photo of genitalia Made fun of Zambia.
‘Sexual’ cyberattack shock for Zambia central bank
acting as the central bank of the African country Bank of Zambia, prepared a detailed report on the outages that occurred last week. The country’s central bank said the latest technical outages were caused by a cyberattack.
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According to the news in BleepingComputer, Bank of Zambia is struggling with the hacking attack of the Hive group. Hive ransomware operation its latest victim, the African institution, Network Attached Storage (NAS) suffered a “minimal attack” as a result of his device being hacked.
After the attack by the Khiva on 9 May Ransom from Bank of Zambia requested. However, the central bank administrators, who did not comply with the hackers’ ransom demand, caused the networks to remain closed until May 14.
An interesting incident occurred after the ransom was not paid. Hackers who can’t get the money with the ransomware operation, male genitalia photo to website uploaded. However, this scandal was not enough to make the rulers pay a ransom.
In the statement sent to the hackers from the Bank of Zambia, “Stop locking the bank networks thinking that you will make money from this genital photo and ransom attack, learn to really make money” were included.
Greg Nsofu, Director of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bank of Zambia, Some information about the cyber attack gave. Speaking to reporters, Nsofu said, “All our basic systems are still operational. Actually, not much sensitive data was exposed. Only some test data may have been leaked,” he said.
First appearing in 2021 hive groupremains “one of the most prolific and aggressive ransomware in today’s cyber world.” Hackers have been before healthcare companies in the USA and Indonesia’s state-sponsored oil and gas companies had attacked.
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