We’ve reported on the cities in Florida that have recently fallen victim to ransomware. Hackers used malware to “lock” the city’s data and not release it until a ransom is paid in bitcoin. The same thing happened to Eurofins Scientific, the UK. It appears the company paid the ransom to the hackers to regain access to data that had been encrypted by the ransomware.
According to the BBC, the ransomware attack took place last month and the Brussels -based company confirmed the incident in a press release the following day, calling the ransomware a "new malware variant."
The hack had disrupted many of IT systems in several countries. He added, however, that internal and external IT forensic experts had not detected any data.
Eurofins Scientific issued a press release on June 24 to confirm that it had begun to recover from the incident, but it did not say whether a ransom had been paid to the hackers or whether it was simply restoring data from backups. Today’s report suggests that the company did indeed pay the hackers a ransom and then restored its systems using the decryption key the hackers. It is unclear how much the company paid in ransom.
