DocuSign , with over 100 million users , is one of the world ’ s largest providers of electronic signature technology and digital transaction management . Recently , DocuSign acknowledged that they have been the victim of a malware phishing attack Attack.Phishing . The data breach Attack.Databreach happened at one DocuSign computer system location and has since been contained . While short-lived , the malware was able to obtain Attack.Databreach many customer and user emails from the DocuSign database . Fortunately , the breach Attack.Databreach was limited to email addresses ; no documents or further customer information was accessed Attack.Databreach in the attack Attack.Databreach . The attackers have begun sending out Attack.Phishing malicious emails with the company ’ s branding to DocuSign customers and users . In an alert on the DocuSign website , the company shared that it is tracking these emails which carry a downloadable Microsoft Word document harboring malware to attack the user ’ s system . The email subject line has been known to read : “ Completed : docusign.com – Wire Transfer Instructions for recipient-name Document Ready for Signature. ” How to protect yourself If you are not expecting an email via DocuSign , do not click on the link . If you are expecting a document , but are unsure of the source , you can access your document directly by visiting docusign.com . Every legitimate DocuSign email has a code which the user can enter on the website to access their document . DocuSign has asked that people forward suspicious emails to spam @ docusign.com then delete the email from their inboxes . It is important to remember that DocuSign will never request a customer or user to open a PDF , Microsoft Office document or ZIP file in an email .

City employees in Atlanta coming to work Friday morning were told not to turn on their computers and WiFi at the Atlanta airport was turned off due to a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom that hit Attack.Ransom municipal systems on Thursday . As employees walked into city hall for work , they were handed a printed notice telling them to not use their computers until they were cleared by the municipal IT group , the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported . At a news conference Friday afternoon , Atlanta chief operating officer Richard Cox said that the WiFi at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport had been disabled out of `` an abundance of caution . '' The city is still working on mitigating the ransomware and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms did not answer questions from reporters as to whether the attack had ended . `` What we want to make sure of is that we aren ’ t putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound . We want to make sure that we take the appropriate steps , '' she said . Atlanta doesn ’ t know who is behind the attack , the mayor said . The good news is that while “ this is a massive inconvenience to the city , it is not life and death , ” she said . Police , fire and other vital services are still fully functional , Cox said . The attack hit early Thursday morning . Bottoms has repeatedly told employees they should monitor their bank accounts because city officials don ’ t yet know what information was compromised Attack.Databreach in the attack Attack.Databreach . `` Let 's just assume that if your personal information is housed by the City of Atlanta , whether it be because you are a customer who goes online and pays your bills or any employee or even a retiree , we do n't know the extent , so we just ask that you be vigilant , '' Bottoms said . The ransomware is affecting applications that customers use to pay bills and access court-related information among other things , Bottoms said . The attackers demanded Attack.Ransom the equivalent of $ 51,000 in digital currency to unlock the system . The city is working with the FBI and local law enforcement to investigate the attack , Cox said . While it has been a difficult two days , Atlanta will in the end prevail , he said . `` The city was around before computers were around , said Cox . `` We ’ ll rise from the ashes , '' he added

Robert Gren was working from home on Friday when , all of a sudden , his laptop stopped working . What he initially thought was just a kink in his computer ’ s software was in fact part of a global ransomware attack Attack.Ransom that has affected more than 200,000 computers and caused untold havoc from China to Britain . Now , Mr. Gren and the thousands of other victims worldwide face an agonizing choice : either hand over the ransom Attack.Ransom — a figure that has climbed to $ 600 for each affected machine — by a deadline this Friday , or potentially lose their digital information , including personal photos , hospital patient records and other priceless data , forever . “ I ’ m pretty devastated , ” said Mr. Gren , 32 , a manager of an online entertainment business in Krakow , Poland , who has spent almost all of his waking hours since Friday looking for ways to reclaim his digital data . “ I ’ ve lost private files that I have no other way of recovering . For me , the damage has been huge. ” That decision has become even more difficult as cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials have repeatedly warned people against paying the ransom Attack.Ransom ahead of this week ’ s deadline . Aside from dissuading victims from handing over money Attack.Ransom that may help fund further such attacks , they caution that it is not guaranteed the attackers will return control of people ’ s computers even if they pay Attack.Ransom the assailants in bitcoin , a digital currency favored in such ransomware attacks Attack.Ransom that can be difficult to trace . Officials also note that the attackers , who have yet to been named , have provided only three bitcoin addresses — similar to a traditional bank routing number — for all global victims to deposit the ransom Attack.Ransom , so it may prove difficult to know who has paid the digital fees Attack.Ransom . This haphazard planning has led many victims to hold off paying Attack.Ransom , at least until they can guarantee they will get their data back . So far , roughly $ 80,000 has been deposited Attack.Ransom into the bitcoin addresses linked to the attack Attack.Ransom , according to Elliptic , a company that tracks online financial transactions involving virtual currencies . F-Secure , a Finnish cybersecurity firm , has confirmed that some of the 200 individuals that it had identified , who had paid the ransom Attack.Ransom , had successfully had their files decrypted . Yet that represented a small fraction of those affected , and the company said it still remained unlikely that people would regain control of their computers if they paid the online fee Attack.Ransom . The tally of ransom payments Attack.Ransom may rise ahead of Friday ’ s deadline , but cybersecurity experts say the current numbers — both total ransom money paid Attack.Ransom and machines decrypted — are far short of early estimates forecasting that the digital attack may eventually cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars in combined ransom fees Attack.Ransom . “ I predict this may be an epic failure , ” said Kim Peretti , a former senior litigator in the Department of Justice ’ s computer crime and intellectual property division who now is co-chairwoman of the cybersecurity preparedness and response team at Alston & Bird , an international law firm . “ Because of the publicity of this attack and the public ’ s awareness of people potentially not getting their files back , the figures aren ’ t as high as people had first thought. ” For victims of such attacks , the potential loss of personal or business files can be traumatic . In typical ransomware cases , including the most recent hack , assailants send Attack.Phishing an encrypted email to potential targets . The message includes a malware attachment that takes over their machines if opened . The attackers then demand payment Attack.Ransom before returning control of the computers , often through money paid into bitcoin or other largely untraceable online currencies .

Three months on from the global WannaCry cyberattack Attack.Ransom , someone has withdrawn funds acquired when victims paid ransoms Attack.Ransom . Almost three months on from the WannaCry ransomware outbreak Attack.Ransom , those behind the global cyberattack Attack.Ransom have finally cashed out their ransom payments Attack.Ransom . The WannaCry epidemic hit Attack.Ransom organisations around the world in May , with the file-encrypting malware -- which used a leaked NSA exploit -- attacking Attack.Ransom Windows systems . It infected over 300,000 PCs and crippling systems across the Americas , Europe , Russia , and China . The UK 's National Health Service was particularly badly hit Attack.Ransom by the attack Attack.Ransom , with hospitals and doctor 's surgeries knocked offline , and some services not restored until days after the ransomware hit Attack.Ransom . WannaCry continued to claim victims even after the initial outbreak : June saw Honda forced to shut down a factory due to an infection and speed cameras in Victoria , Australia also fell victim to the ransomware . While the attack Attack.Ransom was certainly high profile , mistakes in the code meant many victims of WannaCry Attack.Ransom were able to successfully unlock systems without giving into the demands Attack.Ransom of hackers . A bot tracking ransom payments Attack.Ransom says only 338 victims paid Attack.Ransom the $ 300 bitcoin ransom demand Attack.Ransom - not exactly a large haul for an attack which infected hundreds of thousands of computers . In the months since the attack Attack.Ransom , the bitcoin wallets containing the money extorted Attack.Ransom by WannaCry were left untouched , but August 3 saw them suddenly start to be emptied . At the time of withdrawal , the value of the wallets totalled $ 140,000 thanks to changes in the valuation of bitcoin . Three separate withdrawals between 7.3 bitcoin ( $ 20,055 ) and 9.67 bitcoin ( $ 26,435 ) were made in the space of a minute at 4:10am BST , accounting for around half of the total value of the extorted funds . Five minutes later , three more withdrawals of between seven bitcoin ( $ 19.318 ) and 10 Bitcoin ( $ 27,514 ) were made in the space of another 60 seconds . Ten minutes later , a final withdrawal was made , emptying the remaining bitcoin from the WannaCry wallets . There 's no official confirmation of who carried out the attack , but both private cybersecurity firms and investigating government agencies have pointed to North Korea as the culprit . A month after WannaCry Attack.Ransom , companies around the world found themselves being hit Attack.Ransom by another fast-spreading cyberattack in the form of Petya , which like WannaCry is still causing issues for some of those affected . Unfortunately , the success of WannaCry and Petya infection rates means many cybercriminal groups are attempting to copy the worm-like features of these viruses for their own ends .

Three months on from the global WannaCry cyberattack Attack.Ransom , someone has withdrawn funds acquired when victims paid ransoms Attack.Ransom . Almost three months on from the WannaCry ransomware outbreak Attack.Ransom , those behind the global cyberattack Attack.Ransom have finally cashed out their ransom payments Attack.Ransom . The WannaCry epidemic hit Attack.Ransom organisations around the world in May , with the file-encrypting malware -- which used a leaked NSA exploit -- attacking Attack.Ransom Windows systems . It infected over 300,000 PCs and crippling systems across the Americas , Europe , Russia , and China . The UK 's National Health Service was particularly badly hit Attack.Ransom by the attack Attack.Ransom , with hospitals and doctor 's surgeries knocked offline , and some services not restored until days after the ransomware hit Attack.Ransom . WannaCry continued to claim victims even after the initial outbreak : June saw Honda forced to shut down a factory due to an infection and speed cameras in Victoria , Australia also fell victim to the ransomware . While the attack Attack.Ransom was certainly high profile , mistakes in the code meant many victims of WannaCry Attack.Ransom were able to successfully unlock systems without giving into the demands Attack.Ransom of hackers . A bot tracking ransom payments Attack.Ransom says only 338 victims paid Attack.Ransom the $ 300 bitcoin ransom demand Attack.Ransom - not exactly a large haul for an attack which infected hundreds of thousands of computers . In the months since the attack Attack.Ransom , the bitcoin wallets containing the money extorted Attack.Ransom by WannaCry were left untouched , but August 3 saw them suddenly start to be emptied . At the time of withdrawal , the value of the wallets totalled $ 140,000 thanks to changes in the valuation of bitcoin . Three separate withdrawals between 7.3 bitcoin ( $ 20,055 ) and 9.67 bitcoin ( $ 26,435 ) were made in the space of a minute at 4:10am BST , accounting for around half of the total value of the extorted funds . Five minutes later , three more withdrawals of between seven bitcoin ( $ 19.318 ) and 10 Bitcoin ( $ 27,514 ) were made in the space of another 60 seconds . Ten minutes later , a final withdrawal was made , emptying the remaining bitcoin from the WannaCry wallets . There 's no official confirmation of who carried out the attack , but both private cybersecurity firms and investigating government agencies have pointed to North Korea as the culprit . A month after WannaCry Attack.Ransom , companies around the world found themselves being hit Attack.Ransom by another fast-spreading cyberattack in the form of Petya , which like WannaCry is still causing issues for some of those affected . Unfortunately , the success of WannaCry and Petya infection rates means many cybercriminal groups are attempting to copy the worm-like features of these viruses for their own ends .

Three months on from the global WannaCry cyberattack Attack.Ransom , someone has withdrawn funds acquired when victims paid ransoms Attack.Ransom . Almost three months on from the WannaCry ransomware outbreak Attack.Ransom , those behind the global cyberattack Attack.Ransom have finally cashed out their ransom payments Attack.Ransom . The WannaCry epidemic hit Attack.Ransom organisations around the world in May , with the file-encrypting malware -- which used a leaked NSA exploit -- attacking Attack.Ransom Windows systems . It infected over 300,000 PCs and crippling systems across the Americas , Europe , Russia , and China . The UK 's National Health Service was particularly badly hit Attack.Ransom by the attack Attack.Ransom , with hospitals and doctor 's surgeries knocked offline , and some services not restored until days after the ransomware hit Attack.Ransom . WannaCry continued to claim victims even after the initial outbreak : June saw Honda forced to shut down a factory due to an infection and speed cameras in Victoria , Australia also fell victim to the ransomware . While the attack Attack.Ransom was certainly high profile , mistakes in the code meant many victims of WannaCry Attack.Ransom were able to successfully unlock systems without giving into the demands Attack.Ransom of hackers . A bot tracking ransom payments Attack.Ransom says only 338 victims paid Attack.Ransom the $ 300 bitcoin ransom demand Attack.Ransom - not exactly a large haul for an attack which infected hundreds of thousands of computers . In the months since the attack Attack.Ransom , the bitcoin wallets containing the money extorted Attack.Ransom by WannaCry were left untouched , but August 3 saw them suddenly start to be emptied . At the time of withdrawal , the value of the wallets totalled $ 140,000 thanks to changes in the valuation of bitcoin . Three separate withdrawals between 7.3 bitcoin ( $ 20,055 ) and 9.67 bitcoin ( $ 26,435 ) were made in the space of a minute at 4:10am BST , accounting for around half of the total value of the extorted funds . Five minutes later , three more withdrawals of between seven bitcoin ( $ 19.318 ) and 10 Bitcoin ( $ 27,514 ) were made in the space of another 60 seconds . Ten minutes later , a final withdrawal was made , emptying the remaining bitcoin from the WannaCry wallets . There 's no official confirmation of who carried out the attack , but both private cybersecurity firms and investigating government agencies have pointed to North Korea as the culprit . A month after WannaCry Attack.Ransom , companies around the world found themselves being hit Attack.Ransom by another fast-spreading cyberattack in the form of Petya , which like WannaCry is still causing issues for some of those affected . Unfortunately , the success of WannaCry and Petya infection rates means many cybercriminal groups are attempting to copy the worm-like features of these viruses for their own ends .

Cyber criminals took a second swing at Mecklenburg County government on Thursday after officials rejected a demand for money Attack.Ransom following a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom . The follow-up attempts to hold the county hostage over illegally encrypted data came just hours after County Manager Dena Diorio announced she ’ d decided against paying Attack.Ransom a hacker ransom Attack.Ransom . Instead of agreeing to pay Attack.Ransom criminals , she said Wednesday , the county will rebuild its system applications and restore files and data from backups . But by Thursday afternoon , hackers tried to strike again . Diorio sent staff members an email saying , “ I have a new warning for employees. ” As the county ’ s IT staff worked to recover from the first cyberattack , Diorio said , they discovered more attempts to compromise Attack.Databreach computers and data on Thursday . “ To limit the possibility of a new infection , ITS is disabling employees ’ ability to open attachments generated by DropBox and Google Documents , ” she wrote in an email . “ The best advice for now is to limit your use of emails containing attachments , and try to conduct as much business as possible by phone or in person. ” She described the aftermath of the ransomware attack Attack.Ransom as a “ crisis ” and reassured employees they should not feel personally responsible for the incident . The county first learned of the problem earlier this week after an employee opened Attack.Phishing a malicious “ phishing ” email and accessed an attached file that unleashed a widespread problem inside the county ’ s network of computers and information technology . The intent of that ransomware attack Attack.Ransom was to essentially access as many county government files and data servers as possible . Then , the information was encrypted or locked , keeping employees at the county from accessing operating systems and files . The person or people responsible for the infiltration then demanded Attack.Ransom the county pay Attack.Ransom two bitcoins , or about $ 23,000 , in exchange for a release of the locked data . The county refused to pay Attack.Ransom . County officials say they anticipate the recovery time for Mecklenburg County government operations will take days . “ We are open for business , and we are slow , but there ’ s no indication of any data loss Attack.Databreach or that personal information was compromised Attack.Databreach , ” Diorio said . Diorio said third-party security experts believe the attack Attack.Ransom earlier this week by a new strain of ransomware called LockCrypt originated from Iran or Ukraine . Forty-eight of about 500 county computer servers were affected .

The email-borne attack locked the city ’ s servers and many of the daily business functions , officials said . ( TNS ) -- SPRING HILL , Tenn. — The city was the victim of a recent cyber-attack Attack.Ransom , which caused its computer system to lock with a ransom Attack.Ransom of $ 250,000 . Spring Hill was one of several other local government agencies who were victim to the attack Attack.Ransom , and city officials say they do not believe any citizen or customer account information was stolen Attack.Databreach or compromised Attack.Databreach . It did , however , temporarily halt any online credit or debit card payments . `` We received a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom Friday evening that ended up going in and locking our servers . It affected all of our departments , and we have been in recovery mode ever since [ Sunday ] , '' City Administrator Victor Lay said . `` We 've now been able to , at least minimally , conduct business , although the manual system of paper and pencil seems to work pretty well against those kinds of things . '' Lay added that the `` appropriate government authorities '' have been contacted about the incident , which will meet later this week to discuss an investigation into the incident . He said it was not a `` hack '' per se , but a virus created from a downloadable email attachment , locking the system using an encryption key . `` We 're working through it . Obviously , we chose not to pay the ransom Attack.Ransom . We 're working through the system and it 's going to take us a few days to get things all back to normal , but we 're getting there . ''

The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom in May that locked more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries . `` North Korea has acted especially badly , largely unchecked , for more than a decade , '' Homeland Security adviser Tom Bossert said at a White House briefing Tuesday morning . He called the WannaCry attack Attack.Ransom a reckless attack that caused `` havoc and destruction '' by locking vital information away from users , including hospital networks . `` We believe now we have the evidence to support this assertion , '' Bossert said . `` It 's very difficult to do when you 're looking for individual hackers . In this case , we found a concerted effort . '' In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday , Bossert wrote that after careful investigation , Washington can say that Pyongyang is `` directly responsible '' for the WannaCry virus . Bossert called the attack Attack.Ransom in which victims received ransom demands Attack.Ransom to unlock their computers `` cowardly , costly and careless . '' `` The consequences and repercussions of WannaCry were beyond economic , '' he wrote . `` The malicious software hit Attack.Ransom computers in the U.K. 's health-care sector particularly hard , compromising systems that perform critical work . These disruptions put lives at risk . '' Bossert is expected to brief reporters on Tuesday about the hacking . NPR 's Elise Hu tells Morning Edition that `` cyberattacks are a way for North Korea to punch above its weight '' and that Pyongyang 's hackers `` have access to global networks and the Internet , and they have some real successes to count . '' Within days of the attack in May , North Korea fell under suspicion . As NPR 's Bill Chappell reported at the time , WannaCry was found to have `` lines of code that are identical to work by hackers known as the Lazarus Group , [ which has ] ... been linked to North Korea , raising suspicions that the nation could be responsible . '' And in October , Britain 's Minister of State for Security Ben Wallace said his government was `` as sure as possible '' that Pyongyang launched the attack . Bossert said in the Journal that President Trump had `` ordered the modernization of government information-technology to enhance the security of the systems we run on behalf of the American people . '' `` We also indicted Russian hackers and a Canadian acting in concert with them . A few weeks ago , we charged three Chinese nationals for hacking Attack.Databreach , theft Attack.Databreach of trade secrets and identity theft . There will almost certainly be more indictments to come , '' he wrote . He said that the administration would continue to use its `` maximum pressure strategy to curb Pyongyang 's ability to mount attacks , cyber or otherwise . ''

Colorado investigators call in FBI , work through the night . Colorado Department of Transportation employees spent a second day offline Thursday as security officials investigated the damage done by a ransomware virus that hijacked computer files and demanded payment Attack.Ransom in bitcoin for their safe return . The state ’ s Office of Information Technology , which reached out to the FBI for assistance , are still investigating the attack Attack.Ransom and have not paid Attack.Ransom a cent to attackers — nor do they plan to , said Brandi Simmons , an OIT spokeswoman . “ No payments have been made or will be made . We are still investigating to see whether or not files were damaged or recovered Attack.Databreach , ” she said in an email Thursday . On Wednesday morning , CDOT shut down more than 2,000 employee computers while security officials investigated the attack . The malicious code was a variant of ransomware known as SamSam , Simmons said . McAfee , the security software used by CDOT computers , provided Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a software patch on Wednesday to stop the execution of the ransomware . “ This ransomware virus was a variant and the state worked with its antivirus software provider to implement Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a fix today . The state has robust backup and security tools and has no intention of paying ransomware Attack.Ransom . Teams will continue to monitor the situation closely and will be working into the night , ” said David McCurdy , chief technology officer , Governor ’ s Office of Information Technology , in a statement on Wednesday . He added : “ OIT , FBI and other security agencies are working together to determine a root cause analysis. ” SamSam last showed up in January after targeting the healthcare industry . It encrypted files and renamed them “ I ’ m sorry , ” according to a report with security firm TrendMicro . One hospital , Hancock Health in Indiana , paid Attack.Ransom $ 55,000 to get its files back . TrendMicro said the attack Attack.Ransom wasn ’ t due to an employee opening an infected email , but hackers gained access remotely using a vendor ’ s user name and password . “ No one is back online . What we ’ re doing is working offline . All our critical services are still online — cameras , variable message boards , CoTrip , alerts on traffic . They are running on separate systems , ” Ford said . “ The message I ’ m sharing ( with employees ) is CDOT operated for a long time without computers so we ’ ll use pen and paper. ” There ’ s only one Mac computer in the office and it wasn ’ t turned on , Ford said , because “ We ’ re not messing around today . ”

Colorado investigators call in FBI , work through the night . Colorado Department of Transportation employees spent a second day offline Thursday as security officials investigated the damage done by a ransomware virus that hijacked computer files and demanded payment Attack.Ransom in bitcoin for their safe return . The state ’ s Office of Information Technology , which reached out to the FBI for assistance , are still investigating the attack Attack.Ransom and have not paid Attack.Ransom a cent to attackers — nor do they plan to , said Brandi Simmons , an OIT spokeswoman . “ No payments have been made or will be made . We are still investigating to see whether or not files were damaged or recovered Attack.Databreach , ” she said in an email Thursday . On Wednesday morning , CDOT shut down more than 2,000 employee computers while security officials investigated the attack . The malicious code was a variant of ransomware known as SamSam , Simmons said . McAfee , the security software used by CDOT computers , provided Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a software patch on Wednesday to stop the execution of the ransomware . “ This ransomware virus was a variant and the state worked with its antivirus software provider to implement Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a fix today . The state has robust backup and security tools and has no intention of paying ransomware Attack.Ransom . Teams will continue to monitor the situation closely and will be working into the night , ” said David McCurdy , chief technology officer , Governor ’ s Office of Information Technology , in a statement on Wednesday . He added : “ OIT , FBI and other security agencies are working together to determine a root cause analysis. ” SamSam last showed up in January after targeting the healthcare industry . It encrypted files and renamed them “ I ’ m sorry , ” according to a report with security firm TrendMicro . One hospital , Hancock Health in Indiana , paid Attack.Ransom $ 55,000 to get its files back . TrendMicro said the attack Attack.Ransom wasn ’ t due to an employee opening an infected email , but hackers gained access remotely using a vendor ’ s user name and password . “ No one is back online . What we ’ re doing is working offline . All our critical services are still online — cameras , variable message boards , CoTrip , alerts on traffic . They are running on separate systems , ” Ford said . “ The message I ’ m sharing ( with employees ) is CDOT operated for a long time without computers so we ’ ll use pen and paper. ” There ’ s only one Mac computer in the office and it wasn ’ t turned on , Ford said , because “ We ’ re not messing around today . ”

GREENFIELD — Hancock Health fell victim to a cyber attack Attack.Ransom Thursday , with a hacker demanding Bitcoin Attack.Ransom to relinquish control of part of the hospital ’ s computer system . Employees knew something was wrong Thursday night , when the network began running more slowly than normal , senior vice president/chief strategy and innovation officer Rob Matt said . A short time later , a message flashed on a hospital computer screen , stating parts of the system would be held hostage until a ransom is paid Attack.Ransom . The hacker asked for Bitcoin Attack.Ransom — a virtual currency used to make anonymous transactions that is nearly impossible to trace . The hospital ’ s IT team opted to immediately shut down the network to isolate the problem . The attack affected Hancock Health ’ s entire health network , including its physician offices and wellness centers . Friday afternoon , Hancock Health CEO Steve Long confirmed the network was targeted by a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom from an unnamed hacker who “ attempted to shut down ( Hancock Health ’ s ) operations. ” Hospital leaders don ’ t believe any personal medical information has been compromised Attack.Databreach , Long said . Long declined to disclose details of the attack Attack.Ransom , including how much ransom has been requested Attack.Ransom . The attack amounts to a “ digital padlock , ” restricting personnel access to parts of the health network ’ s computer systems , he said . The attack was not the result of an employee opening a malware-infected email , a common tactic used to hack computer systems , he said . The attack was sophisticated , he said , adding FBI officials are familiar with this method of security breach . “ This was not a 15-year-old kid sitting in his mother ’ s basement , ” Long said . Protecting patients Notices posted Friday at entrances to Hancock Regional Hospital alerted visitors to a “ system-wide outage ” and asked any hospital employee or office using a HRH network to ensure all computers were turned off . Doctors and nurses have reverted to using pen and paper for now to keep patients ’ medical charts updated . Long said he wasn ’ t aware of any appointments or procedures that were canceled directly related to the incident , adding Friday ’ s snowy weather contributed to many cancellations . Most patients likely didn ’ t notice there was a problem , nor did the attack significantly impact patient care , Long said . Hospital staff members worked with the FBI and a national IT security company overnight and throughout the day Friday to resolve the issue . Long said law enforcement has been acting in an “ advisory capacity , ” and declined to release details about the plan going forward , including whether the hospital is considering paying the ransom Attack.Ransom . Long commended his staff , especially IT workers , who quickly identified the problem Thursday evening . “ If I was going through this with anybody , this is the team I would want to go through this with because I know what the outcome is going to be , ” he said . Leaders updated hospital employees , totaling about 1,200 people , throughout the day Friday and took steps to be accommodate both patients and staff , including offering free food in the hospital cafeteria all day , Long said . Long said if there is any suggestion private patient information has been compromised Attack.Databreach , hospital officials will reach out to those affected , though he doesn ’ t expect that to become an issue . “ We anticipate questions , ” he said . “ This is not a small deal . ”

( TNS ) — Last month , employees at the Colorado Department of Transportation were greeted by a message on their computer screens similar to this : “ All your files are encrypted with RSA-2048 encryption . … It ’ s not possible to recover your files without private key . … You must send Attack.Ransom us 0.7 BitCoin for each affected PC or 3 BitCoins to receive ALL Private Keys for ALL affected PC ’ s. ” CDOT isn’t paying Attack.Ransom , but others have . In fact , so-called ransomware has become one of the most lucrative criminal enterprises in the U.S. and internationally , with the FBI estimating total payments Attack.Ransom are nearing $ 1 billion . Hackers use ransomware to encrypt computer files , making them unreadable without a secret key , and then demand digital currency Attack.Ransom like bitcoin if victims want the files back — and many victims are falling for that promise . Ransomware infects more than 100,000 computers around the world every day and payments Attack.Ransom are approaching $ 1 billion , said U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein during the October 2017 Cambridge Cyber Summit , citing FBI statistics . A study by researchers at Google , Chainalysis , University of California San Diego and NYU Tandon School of Engineering estimated that from 2016 to mid 2017 , victims paid Attack.Ransom $ 25 million in ransom Attack.Ransom to get files back . And one out of five businesses that do pay the ransom Attack.Ransom don ’ t get their data back , according to 2016 report by Kaspersky Labs . Last spring , the Erie County Medical Center in New York was attacked Attack.Ransom by SamSam due to a misconfigured web server , according to The Buffalo News . Because it had backed up its files , the hospital decided not to pay Attack.Ransom the estimated $ 44,000 ransom Attack.Ransom . It took six weeks to get back to normal at a recovery cost of nearly $ 10 million . More recently in January , the new SamSam variant sneaked Attack.Ransom into Indiana hospital Hancock Health , which decided to pay Attack.Ransom 4 bitcoin , or about $ 55,000 , in ransom Attack.Ransom . Attackers gained entry by using a vendor ’ s username and password on a Thursday night . The hospital was back online by Monday morning . Colorado security officials are still investigating the CDOT ransomware attack Attack.Ransom that took 2,000 employee computers offline for more than a week . They don ’ t plan to pay the ransom Attack.Ransom but offered few details about the attack Attack.Ransom other than confirming it was a variant of the SamSam ransomware . Security researchers with Cisco ’ s Talos , which shared the SamSam message with The Denver Post , reported in January that the new SamSam variant had so far collected 30.4 bitcoin , or about $ 325,217 . The reality is that people need to be smarter about computer security . That means patching software , using anti-malware software , and not sharing passwords and accounts . And not opening files , emails or links from unfamiliar sources — and sometimes familiar sources . Webroot doesn ’ t have an official stance on whether to pay a ransom Attack.Ransom to get files back , but Dufour says it ’ s a personal decision . Cybersecurity companies like Webroot can advise whether the hacker has a reputation for restoring files after payment is received Attack.Ransom . “ Paying a ransom Attack.Ransom to a cybercriminal is an incredibly personal decision . It ’ s easy to say not to negotiate with criminals when it ’ s not your family photos or business data that you ’ ll never see again . Unfortunately , if you want your data back , paying the ransom Attack.Ransom is often the only option , ” Dufour said . “ However , it ’ s important to know that there are some strains of ransomware that have coding and encryption errors . For these cases , even paying the ransom Attack.Ransom won ’ t decrypt your data . I recommend checking with a computer security expert before paying any ransom Attack.Ransom . ”

Federal officials , Microsoft and Cisco are working with the city of Atlanta to resolve the attack Attack.Ransom , but Atlanta 's mayor wo n't say if the city paid Attack.Ransom the $ 51,000 ransom Attack.Ransom . As of Saturday , Atlanta officials and federal partners were still “ working around the clock ” to resolve the ransomware attack Attack.Ransom on city computers that occurred around 5 a.m. on Thursday , March 22 , and encrypted some financial and person data . As @ Cityofatlanta officials & federal partners continue working around the clock to resolve issues related to the ransomware cyber attack Attack.Ransom launched against the City , solid waste & other DPW operations are not impacted . — ATLPublicWorks ( @ ATLPublicWorks ) March 24 , 2018 On Thursday , the official investigation included “ the FBI , U.S. Department of Homeland Security , Cisco cybersecurity officials and Microsoft to determine what information has been accessed Attack.Databreach and how to resolve the situation. ” A city employee sent WXIA a screenshot of the ransom demand Attack.Ransom , which included a pay-per-computer option Attack.Ransom of $ 6,800 or an option to pay Attack.Ransom $ 51,000 to unlock the entire system . CBS 46 reported that the ransom demand Attack.Ransom and instruction said : Send .8 bitcoins for each computer or 6 bitcoins for all of the computers . ( That 's the equivalent of around $ 51,000 . ) After the .8 bitcoin is sent , leave a comment on their website with the provided host name . They ’ ll then reply to the comment with a decryption software . When you run that , all of the encrypted files will be recovered . On Friday , March 23 , city employees were handed a printed notice as they walked through the front doors . They were told not to turn on their computers until the issue was resolved . Officials were still unsure who was behind the attack . Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms advised city employees and customers to monitor their personal information , although there was no evidence to show customer or employee data was compromised Attack.Databreach . Mayor Bottoms clarified what services had not been impacted and were still available to residents and which ones had been impacted . Mayor Bottoms will not say if Atlanta intends to pay the ransom demand Attack.Ransom , saying , “ We will be looking for guidance from , specifically , our federal partners on how to best navigate the best course of action. ” During a press conference , Bottoms said , “ What we want to make sure of is that we aren ’ t putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound. ” She then turned the press conference over to Richard Cox , the City of Atlanta 's chief operations officer ; the poor dude is brand new to serving as Atlanta ’ s COO . He confirmed the existence of the ransom demand Attack.Ransom but would not reveal the contents .

LabCorp experienced a breach this past weekend , which it nows says was a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom . The intrusion has also prompted concerns that patient data may have also been stolen Attack.Databreach . One of the biggest clinical lab testing companies in the world , LabCorp , was hit Attack.Ransom with a `` new variant of ransomware '' over the weekend . `` LabCorp promptly took certain systems offline as a part of its comprehensive response to contain and remove the ransomware from its system , '' the company told PCMag in an email . `` We are working to restore additional systems and functions over the next several days . '' LabCorp declined to say what variant of ransomware was used . But according to The Wall Street Journal , the company was hit Attack.Ransom with a strain known as SamSam . In March , the same strain attacked Attack.Ransom the city of Atlanta 's IT network . Like other ransomware variants , SamSam will effectively lock down a computer , encrypting all the files inside , and then demand Attack.Ransom the victim pay up Attack.Ransom to free the system . In the Atlanta attack Attack.Ransom , the anonymous hackers demanded Attack.Ransom $ 51,000 , which the city government reportedly refused to pay Attack.Ransom . How much the hackers are demanding Attack.Ransom from LabCorp is n't clear ; the company declined to answer further questions about the attack Attack.Ransom or if it will pay the ransom Attack.Ransom . The lab testing provider first reported the breach on Monday , initially describing it as `` suspicious activity '' on the company 's IT systems that relate to healthcare diagnostics . This prompted fears that patient data may have been stolen Attack.Databreach . The North Carolina-based company processes more than 2.5 million lab tests per week and has over 1,900 patient centers across the US . `` LabCorp also has connections to most of the hospitals and other clinics in the United States , '' Pravin Kothari , CEO of cybersecurity firm CipherCloud , said in an email . `` All of this presents , at some point , perhaps an increased risk of cyber attacks propagating and moving through this expanded ecosystem . '' On Thursday , LabCorp issued a new statement and said the attack Attack.Ransom was a ransomware strain . At this point , the company has found `` no evidence of theft Attack.Databreach or misuse of data , '' but it 's continuing to investigate . `` As part of our in-depth and ongoing investigation into this incident , LabCorp has engaged outside security experts and is working with authorities , including law enforcement , '' the company added .

LabCorp experienced a breach this past weekend , which it nows says was a ransomware attack Attack.Ransom . The intrusion has also prompted concerns that patient data may have also been stolen Attack.Databreach . One of the biggest clinical lab testing companies in the world , LabCorp , was hit Attack.Ransom with a `` new variant of ransomware '' over the weekend . `` LabCorp promptly took certain systems offline as a part of its comprehensive response to contain and remove the ransomware from its system , '' the company told PCMag in an email . `` We are working to restore additional systems and functions over the next several days . '' LabCorp declined to say what variant of ransomware was used . But according to The Wall Street Journal , the company was hit Attack.Ransom with a strain known as SamSam . In March , the same strain attacked Attack.Ransom the city of Atlanta 's IT network . Like other ransomware variants , SamSam will effectively lock down a computer , encrypting all the files inside , and then demand Attack.Ransom the victim pay up Attack.Ransom to free the system . In the Atlanta attack Attack.Ransom , the anonymous hackers demanded Attack.Ransom $ 51,000 , which the city government reportedly refused to pay Attack.Ransom . How much the hackers are demanding Attack.Ransom from LabCorp is n't clear ; the company declined to answer further questions about the attack Attack.Ransom or if it will pay the ransom Attack.Ransom . The lab testing provider first reported the breach on Monday , initially describing it as `` suspicious activity '' on the company 's IT systems that relate to healthcare diagnostics . This prompted fears that patient data may have been stolen Attack.Databreach . The North Carolina-based company processes more than 2.5 million lab tests per week and has over 1,900 patient centers across the US . `` LabCorp also has connections to most of the hospitals and other clinics in the United States , '' Pravin Kothari , CEO of cybersecurity firm CipherCloud , said in an email . `` All of this presents , at some point , perhaps an increased risk of cyber attacks propagating and moving through this expanded ecosystem . '' On Thursday , LabCorp issued a new statement and said the attack Attack.Ransom was a ransomware strain . At this point , the company has found `` no evidence of theft Attack.Databreach or misuse of data , '' but it 's continuing to investigate . `` As part of our in-depth and ongoing investigation into this incident , LabCorp has engaged outside security experts and is working with authorities , including law enforcement , '' the company added .