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BitPaymer Cyberattack in Alaska

A malicious computer cryptovirus is known to have hit Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) borough, an Anchorage Metropolitan Area in Alaska on July 24th 2018. The discovery of the ransomware attack led Borough’s government networks and IT staff to shut down largely affected IT systems. Servers were the first to loose connectivity  followed by phones, email id, and Internet access!

The security team is steadily working to  cope with the compromised systems and to get them cleaned and restore email, phones and Internet connection.

BitPaymer Cyberattack in Alaska – Multi-pronged, Multi-vectored Attack

Modus Operandi on the attack revealed that the virus exhibited a “Multi-pronged, Multi-vectored attack” trait that had the multiple aspects of viruses including dead man’s switch, Cryptolocker, time bomb and Trojan horse.

The malware was identified as BitPaymer ransomware that was first spotted in July last year. Culprits behind the design of this ransomware are suspected to be linked to the same criminal group that runs infamous Dridex banking Trojan.

The “Trojan” aspect of the BitPaymer ransomware was first detected by the anti-virus scans on July 17th 2018 on windows 7 machines.  Other traits of this multi-pronged virus however, were completely missed by anti- virus software scans.

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