The scheme is to encode the computers and servers from one company to earn bitcoins will come from the east of Europe. According to the Public found next to the Judicial Police sources, hackers already have arrived to the servers schools and all Portuguese ministries, although the government denied any kind of failure.
The technique to block systems with recourse to sending an email – disguised as a ‘fax message “- which carries a malicious file in WinRar, is not new, but is now taking another type proportions in Portugal. According to the newspaper, the group works from Eastern Europe.
This wave of attacks have led to the arrival of about 20 complaints to the PJ cybercrime department. However, not only the office of the Prime Minister says that the systems of the ministries are working properly as the Ministry of Education and Science says the latest attack the system of an educational establishment has occurred in the past year.
In September 2014, two Ukrainians were arrested in Spain accused of committing this crime, also in return for bitcoins. At the time it was estimated that the group, located in Madrid, had infected 21 000 companies from 80 countries, asking redemptions of around thousand euros. Some companies paid, but never came to retrieve the encrypted data.
The TeK already had given account that in 2013 an entity of public administration linked to the teaching area saw part of the computer system is data kidnap victim by hackers. The information came at a time when a Portuguese company also saw its kidnapped database, in what is a cybercrime technique increasingly common.
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