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Mexico’s Pemex Oil Suffers Ransomware Attack, $4.9 Million Demanded

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Dissent

Lawrence Abrams reports:

Mexico’s state-owned oil company, Pemex, has suffered a DoppelPaymer ransomware attack that demanded $4.9 million USD in order to decrypt their files.

On Sunday, November 10th, Pemex was hit with a ransomware attack that the company states affected less than 5% of their computers. Workers reported, though, that internal memos told them not to initially turn on their computers, but were up and running again later in the day on Monday.

Read more on BleepingComputer.

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