{"id":1737,"date":"2017-06-29T00:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microdium.net\/public\/2017\/06\/29\/firm-cuts-off-email-account-to-hacker-in-global-ransomware-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T00:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T16:15:16","slug":"firm-cuts-off-email-account-to-hacker-in-global-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/2017\/06\/29\/firm-cuts-off-email-account-to-hacker-in-global-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm Cuts Off Email Account to Hacker in Global Ransomware Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microdium.net\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/965b0b32315164172cadf81f5f3ce435_S.jpg\" alt=\"Firm Cuts Off Email Account to Hacker in Global Ransomware Attack\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>An email provider being used by the perpetrators of a global ransomware attack today shut off the hackers\u2019 access to the account, blocking the main avenue by which victims could regain access to their files.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s attack marked the <a href=\"http:\/\/mspmentor.net\/managed-security-services\/global-ransomware-attack-cripples-networks-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second time<\/a> in as many months that hackers have launched sophisticated, international ransomware campaigns based on EternalBlue, an exploit purportedly stolen last year from the National Security Agency and leaked to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>The German firm <a href=\"https:\/\/posteo.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Posteo<\/a> published a <a href=\"https:\/\/posteo.de\/en\/blog\/info-on-the-petrwrappetya-ransomware-email-account-in-question-already-blocked-since-midday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog entry<\/a> this afternoon announcing its security specialists had identified one of their accounts which was being used by the hackers to collect on $300 (USD) ransom demands from each victim.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mspmentor.net\/managed-security-services\/firm-cuts-email-account-hacker-global-ransomware-attack\">http:\/\/mspmentor.net\/managed-security-services\/firm-cuts-email-account-hacker-global-ransomware-attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\nSource: DRJ New feed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An email provider being used by the perpetrators of a global ransomware attack today shut off the hackers\u2019 access to the account, blocking the main avenue by which victims could regain access to their files. &#013; Today\u2019s attack marked the second time in as many months that hackers have launched sophisticated, international ransomware campaigns based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1738,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disaster-recovery-cybersecurity-news-malaysia","tag-about"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.microdium.com\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}