WannaCry only demanded Attack.Ransom $ 300 from each victim . These hackers extorted Attack.Ransom $ 1 million from one South Korean company . Hackers appear to have pulled off Attack.Ransom a $ 1 million heist with ransomware in South Korea . The ransomware attacked Attack.Ransom more than 153 Linux servers that South Korean web provider Nayana hosted , locking up more than 3,400 websites on June 10 . In Nayana 's first announcement a few days later , it said the hackers demanded Attack.Ransom 550 bitcoins to free up all the servers -- about $ 1.62 million . Four days later , Nayana said it 'd negotiated with the attackers and got the payment reduced Attack.Ransom to 397 bitcoins , or about $ 1 million . This is the single largest-known payout for a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom , and it was an attack Attack.Ransom on one company . For comparison , the WannaCry ransomware attacked Attack.Ransom 200,000 computers across 150 countries , and has only pooled $ 127,142 in bitcoins since it surfaced . Ransomware demands Attack.Ransom have risen rapidly over the past year , tripling in price from 2015 to 2016 . But even then , the highest cost of a single ransomware attack Attack.Ransom was $ 28,730 . Nayana agreed to pay Attack.Ransom the ransomware in three installments , and said Saturday it 's already paid Attack.Ransom two-thirds of the $ 1 million demand Attack.Ransom . `` It is very frustrating and difficult , but I am really doing my best and I will do my best to make sure all servers are normalized , '' a Nayana administrator said , according to a Google translation of the blog post . The company is expected to make the final payment Attack.Ransom once all the servers from the first and second payouts Attack.Ransom have been restored . Trend Micro , a cybersecurity research firm , identified the ransomware as Erebus , which targets Linux servers for attacks . It first surfaced in September through web ads , and popped up again in February . `` It 's worth noting that this ransomware is limited in terms of coverage , and is , in fact , heavily concentrated in South Korea , '' Trend Micro researchers said Monday in a blog post . Paying ransomware Attack.Ransom is at the victim 's discretion , but nearly all organizations , including government agencies and security researchers , advise against it .

Files claiming to be the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie have leaked Attack.Databreach online after Disney refused to meet hackers ' demands Attack.Ransom . On 17 May , Softpedia 's Gabriela Vatu reported that two copies of Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales had appeared on the popular ( and somewhat appropriate ) BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay . `` According to the information unearthed thus far , the hackers managed to get access Attack.Databreach to the systems of Larson Studios in Hollywood , a company that handles additional dialogue recorded for movies . It seems that the copies they 've managed to get their hands on are in various stages of production and not exactly what you 'd expect from a full cinema-ready release . '' News of the extortion attempt first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter on 15 May when Bob Iger , CEO at Walt Disney , revealed the hackers had demanded Attack.Ransom that Disney pay Attack.Ransom a `` huge sum '' in Bitcoins to prevent them from leaking a then-undisclosed movie online . At the time , the attackers said they would release the film incrementally to netizens , first publishing clips lasting only a few minutes and slowly building up to 20-minute segments . Iger said Disney decided to not pay Attack.Ransom the attackers and was working with federal law enforcement to investigate the theft of one of its productions . It 's unclear who exactly perpetrated the leak Attack.Databreach - if indeed the files really are of the movie . Even so , a potential candidate is The Dark Overlord , a group of hackers who released the fifth season of Orange Is the New Black after Netflix refused to meet its ransom demands Attack.Ransom back in April 2017 . Around that time , the hacking gang , which has also extorted Attack.Ransom non-film entities in the past , tweeted out that it had stolen Attack.Databreach content from a number of other media companies . It did not name Walt Disney by name , though it did point to FOX , ABC , and others . Who is next on the list ? FOX , IFC , NAT GEO , and ABC . Oh , what fun we 're all going to have . We 're not playing any games anymore . While Disney and Netflix continue to work with the FBI in tracking down The Dark Overlord , someone has already removed the two copies of what claimed to be the Pirates of the Caribbean film from The Pirate Bay . The hackers could release the movies again . Or they might be focusing on their next target . While movie-goers might celebrate a leak of the movie , media companies like Walt Disney do n't want viewers gaining early access to their content . That 's why organizations should take the opportunity to conduct some security awareness training with their employees . This effort should include phishing Attack.Phishing simulations and reviewing the security readiness of companies along their supply chains . Article updated 19 May 2017 . None of the files made available as downloadable torrents have been confirmed to contain footage of the movie . For more discussion on the issue , make sure to listen to this recent episode of the `` Smashing Security '' podcast . Your browser does not support this audio element .

Cyber security experts reveal they have found a second massive computer virus which has affected hundreds of thousands of computers world-wide , like the WannaCry cyber attack Attack.Ransom last week , has affected hundreds of thousands of computers world-wide and may have North Korean origins . This second global hack exploits the same Microsoft vulnerabilities as the WannaCry attack Attack.Ransom and it is estimated to have infected more than 200,000 computers . The full scale of this attack , however , is still being determined due to the fact the attack is on-going . Preliminary analysis by California-based cyber security firm Proofpoint , which revealed the existence of this more subtle virus , suggests “ that this attack may be larger in scale than WannaCry ” , the company said in an online statement . Unlike last week ’ s attack which infected more than 300,000 computers since last Friday , this second cyber attack is thought to have begun either in late April or early May , but it had avoided being detected until recently , said Proofpoint researchers . Computers infected by this second virus do not have their functions altered , nor are their files encrypted . Instead , they manufacture digital currency . Proofpoint said the virus installs the Adylkuzz currency “ miner ” – a sort of malware which hijacks a computer ’ s processing power to solve complex math problems and earn digital money . There exists several different kinds of online currencies , the most famous being Bitcoin . But this second attack is designed to generate a newer form of digital cash called Monero . Monero offers enhanced anonymity features and is the currency of darknet market place AlphaBay . Experts also believe the currency has been pursued by North Korea-linked hacker groups . Proofpoint estimates this relatively unobtrusive computer virus generated more than a million euro – much more than what the WannaCry hackers extorted Attack.Ransom from their ransomware attack Attack.Ransom . A North Korean hacker group called the Lazarus Group is thought to be behind last week ’ s massive ransomware attack Attack.Ransom and now it is thought a segment of this hacker group may be behind the currency mining attack . Kapersky Lab , a cyber security firm , said a segment of the Lazarus group had installed software on a European server in early April to mine Monero currency , said Reuters . Proofpoint executive Ryan Kalember , speaking to Reuters , said he believes these two attacks are “ more than coincidence ” . “ It ’ s a really strong overlap ” , he told Reuters . “ It ’ s not like you see Monero miners all over the world . ”