A Hacker Wants $5M in Ransom From Pemex By End of November

I think Saudi Aramco was hacked a few years back too.

Having worked at a major oil company, it doesn’t surprise me that these things happen. It’s not that anybody is particularly unintelligent, moreso that large sometimes sleepy companies have lots of vulnerable points in IT.

I’m sure the same could be said for a host of other corporations, tech, finance, and defense aside.

Daily reminder you need isolated, tested back-ups! Sure, you might not be able to recover all data but having no back-ups versus losing data in an x timeframe makes a big difference.

Sounds like a job for Normal man: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-ransomware-superhero-...

Potential new revenue source for the cartels.

When life imitates art. Wasn't this literally the plot to the Hackers movie? Complete with the 5 million dollar ransom to an oil company...