{"id":7368,"date":"2022-08-24T18:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T09:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2022-10-13T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T10:03:52","slug":"dominican-republics-iad-disrupted-by-quantum-ransomware-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/dominican-republics-iad-disrupted-by-quantum-ransomware-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic&#8217;s IAD disrupted by Quantum ransomware attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7368\" class=\"elementor elementor-7368\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e5cbebb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e5cbebb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6d9f4f8\" data-id=\"6d9f4f8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6330767 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6330767\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>It has been revealed that the Dominican Republic&#8217;s Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD) has suffered a Quantum ransomware attack that encrypted multiple services and workstations throughout the government agency. Reports from local media publicized that the ransomware attack occurred on Thursday 18th of August 2022.\u00a0<\/p><p>&#8220;They ask for more than 600 thousand dollars. We were affected by four physical servers and eight virtual servers; virtually all servers,&#8221; &#8211; Walixson Amaury Nu\u00f1ez, IAD Director of Technology<\/p><p>At this current time, the National Cybersecurity Center (CNCS), which has been assisting the Instituto Agrario Dominicano with recovering from the incident has stated that the IP addresses of the threat actors were from the U.S. and Russia. The Instituto Agrario Dominicano has told local media that they only had basic security software on their systems, such as antivirus, and lack a dedicated security department.<\/p><p>The Quantum ransomware group has claimed to have stolen over 1TB of data and has threatened to release it if IAD did not pay a ransom publicly. It is believed that the initial ransom demand was $650,000.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been revealed that the Dominican Republic&#8217;s Instituto Agrario Dominicano (IAD) has suffered a Quantum ransomware attack that encrypted multiple services and workstations throughout the government agency. Reports from local media publicized that the ransomware attack occurred on Thursday 18th of August 2022.&nbsp; &#8220;They ask for more than 600 thousand dollars. 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