A malware infection has crippled the IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut.
An
alert from the provincial government on Monday says that "all government services requiring access to electronic information" are being impacted by what they describe as a "new and sophisticated" infection. "Essential services will not be impacted and the [government of Nunavik] will continue to operate while we work through this issue," Premier Joe Savikataaq said. "There will likely be some delays as we get back online, and I thank everyone for their patience and understanding."
Fully recovering from the infection could be tricky for Nunavut, a remote area that covers much of the northernmost portions of Canada. The territory covers an area of more than 1.9 million square kilometers, but has a population of around 36,000 people. While the government did not say exactly which infection had crippled its IT infrastructure, a CBC report showed a copy of a ransom note that appears to be identical to that of the Dridex malware's DoppelPaymer ransomware module.
