29 Nov Bitcoin ransomware forces Spanish security firm Prosegur offline
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Spanish multinational security firm Prosegur has been hit by Ryuk ransomware, the notorious Trojan virus that encrypts files on a compromised device and typically demands payment in Bitcoin to decrypt them.
As a result of the attack, the company, which reportedly employs 170,000 people across the globe, has shut down its IT network and its employees were reportedly sent home.
The firm, which is credited as being one of the world’s biggest provider of armored vehicles to transport cash, said on Twitter that it had taken “maximum security measures” to avoid propagating the ransomware both internally and externally.
Statement on information security incident pic.twitter.com/5AkBvq1OwY
— Prosegur (@Prosegur) November 27, 2019
Kevin Beaumont, a cybersecurity researcher, said on Twitter that the measures had had a knock-on effect on customers.
Prosegur incident is just over a day old, customers and…
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