Maze Ransomware Targets State-owned oil Company of Algeria

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Latest campaign of Maze ransomware has targeted and encrypted data from Berkine, a joint venture between Sonatrach, the state-owned oil company of Algeria, and the US firm formerly known as Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, through its subsidiary Anadarko Algeria Company. The main goal of the ransomware is to crypt all files that it can in an infected system and then demand a ransom to recover the files. What’s more alarming is, upon failure of acquiring a ransom payment, they have exposed the data of Sonatrach on a victim-shaming website.

Maze Ransomware Targets State-owned oil Company of Algeria

Overview Latest campaign of Maze ransomware has targeted and encrypted data from Berkine, a joint venture between Sonatrach, the state-owned oil company of Algeria, and the […]

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[Antus67]

My question to ithese companies what are they doing to beef up their secuirity against this ransomware attack?? These state owned company's need to get pro active.

 

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My question to ithese companies what are they doing to beef up their secuirity against this ransomware attack?? These state owned company's need to get pro active.

Your question is in order
No one knows what kind of protection they use
If they really use it.