The website of the foreign currency exchange GWK Travelex has been a week to get back online, after it was hit by a gijzelsoftware. At the end of January, visitors from the Uk web site as possible, in order to make money, but websites in other countries, it was temporarily out of reach.
After the ransomwareaanval reported to Travelex for the past few weeks that the website for “scheduled maintenance” is not available. The visitors could, therefore, online no orders for foreign currency to place it, and had to head out to a physical location of the meeting rooms.
as a result of the digital hostage-taking, the company was forced to take the systems off-line throw. After the on-premise systems over the past week as well as the websites for our clients will once again be open.
Travelex was hit by a gijzelsoftware the name of Sodinokibi. The ransomware encrypts the systems, and will then ask you for money in order for them to be free-to-view. It is unclear as to whether or Travelex at the demand has been met, or that the company’s systems in a different way to free him.
The investigation into the cyber attack is still ongoing, says Travelex on the web site. The police force of London has been a case study for the digital hostage-taking started.
