Brain Cipher: What happens when national infrastructure comes under strike?
About this episode
The episode discusses a ransomware attack by Brain Cipher that crippled critical government agencies in Indonesia.
Send us Fan Mail Indonesia, June 2024 - 210 critical government agencies were crippled in one fell swoop. Immigration services were in disarray; customs officers locked out of critical systems and travellers left stranded in airport and ferry terminals facing delays that would continue for a full week. The culprit? Brain Cipher, a ransomware group barely a week old, which demanded a huge sum of $8M from Indonesia’s National Data Centre, bringing local government services to their knees. The c...
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