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Off late the moving trends and the environmental changes has proved that the Cyberattackers have moved their modus operandi from just individuals to organizations and now have headed towards the travel industry. It has been positively confirmed that a cyber attacker by the name "Sodinokibi". This goes to prove that these reckless professionals are not concerned about anything. This is something that was also waned by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to the organizations in the past year i.e. 2019. According to the FBI ransomware remains on high impact on an ongoing cyber threat . This warning was proven to be true.
This was a matter of concern for the airport authorities of the City of New Orleans on December 13, 2019 when they underwent a cybersecurity attack. Because of this attack it upheld the New York as their victim and fell as a ransomware attack over christmas.
The officials at the Albany County Airport Authority on January 09 2020 had confirmed that the encrypted attack also impacted the back files along with the budget spreadsheets. However, they had to pay the ransomware to get things right. The ransomware was paid on 30th December 2019. AP (Associated Press) officials from the Albany County Airport Authority in their report further specified that they had to pay a ransom of bitcoin under six figures and within two hours an encryption key was made available to restore the data.
Bleeping Computer in their report spilled that the attack was taken place through the MSP (maintenance server of its managed).
Sodinokibi threatens the travel industry now.
The ransomware Sodinokibi tale just didn"t end here, Sodinokibi also had struck the London-based Global foreign currency exchange Travelex on New Year"s Eve. Travelex had shut down its systems to prevent ransomware. In their statement they declared to the police that Travelex had undergone a virus attack and they sensed that it was a ransomware attack that they had undergone to switch off their servers with immediate effect.
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