City of Joburg, banks under cyber attack
A group called the Shadow Kill Hackers demands payment of 4.0 bitcoins by October 28 or will upload all hijacked data onto the internet
25 October 2019 - 00:25
The City of Johannesburg reported a breach of its network on Thursday night and shut down its website and all e-services, hours after receiving a bitcoin ransom note from a group called the Shadow Kill Hackers.
The hack occurred at the same time that several banks also reported internet problems believed to be related to cyber attacks...
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