Anonymous ID: c42bca Nov. 28, 2018, 1:19 p.m. No.4063293   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3303

WEBCAST: PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE FIRST LADY PARTICIPATE IN THE NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY

 

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Anonymous ID: c42bca Nov. 28, 2018, 1:37 p.m. No.4063488   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3513

Two Iranian men indicted in international computer hacking scheme that shut down CDOT computers for days

A federal grand jury in New Jersey indicted the men for holding public computer systems hostage using SamSam ransomware

 

Two Iranian men were indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury in New Jersey in connection with a widespread computer hacking and extortion scheme that affected major computer systems across the United States and Canada, including the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The agency’s computer system was shut down for days as employees fought the attack and worked to restore department data. The agency even brought in the Colorado National Guard to assist.

 

The two men, who lived in Iran, launched their scheme in December 2015 to hold large computer systems hostage until owners paid a ransom to have their malicious software removed.

 

Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Shah Mansouri, 27, face six counts in the indictment. They are accused of authoring the ransomware, named SamSam, and unleashing it on more than 200 victims, including the cities of Atlanta and Newark, the port of San Diego, and six health care corporations

 

The two men allegedly would extort their targets by demanding that the ransoms were paid in Bitcoin, a digital currency. The men would then use Iran-based Bitcoin exchangers to convert the digital currency into rial, Iran’s monetary system.

 

The two allegedly collected $6 million in U.S. ransom payments and caused more than $30 million in losses to more than 200 victims, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said in the news release