{"id":8454,"date":"2023-05-26T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T07:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=8454"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T07:14:25","slug":"attack-against-city-of-augusta-claimed-by-blackbyte-ransomware-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/attack-against-city-of-augusta-claimed-by-blackbyte-ransomware-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack against City of Augusta claimed by BlackByte ransomware gang"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8454\" class=\"elementor elementor-8454\" 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-ae675be elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ae675be\" 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-a51c14a\" data-id=\"a51c14a\" 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-07c7ecc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07c7ecc\" 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>On Friday 2nd of June 2023, the city of Augusta\u00a0in Georgia, U.S. confirmed that the recent IT system outage was caused by unauthorized access to its network. The city explained that it started experiencing technical difficulties on\u00a0Sunday, May 21, which disrupted some of its computer systems.<\/p><p>\u201cAugusta\u2019s Information Technology Department continues to work diligently to investigate the incident, to confirm its impact on our systems, and to restore full functionality to our systems as soon as possible,\u201d -the\u00a0city&#8217;s announcement.\u00a0<\/p><p>Even though the administration has not disclosed the nature of the cyberattack, the BlackByte ransomware gang has claimed responsible by posting the City of Augusta on its extortion site. BlackByte claims to hold a large number of files that contain sensitive data stolen from Augusta\u2019s computers and has already leaked a sample of 10GB of data as proof of their breach. The demanded ransom for deleting the stolen information is $400,000. BlackByte\u00a0ransomware gang also offers to resell the data to interested third parties for $300,000.<\/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>On Friday 2nd of June 2023, the city of Augusta&nbsp;in Georgia, U.S. confirmed that the recent IT system outage was caused by unauthorized access to its network. The city explained that it started experiencing technical difficulties on&nbsp;Sunday, May 21, which disrupted some of its computer systems. \u201cAugusta\u2019s Information Technology Department continues to work diligently to investigate the incident, to confirm<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,9,2,7,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-read_article","category-ransomware_criminals","category-ce_news","category-by_country","category-industry_sector","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Picture2.jpg?fit=1378%2C919&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8462,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8454\/revisions\/8462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}