A group of hackers carried out a successful attack on the company Telecom this Saturday and they request about 8 million dollars to return the hijacked files.
On Saturday afternoon, company personnel received a warning from do not turn on the work computers so that the system is no longer affected.
According to the company, users will not be affected by the hack. However, the company’s call center had to temporarily suspend its service.
“They say it caused problems in Citrix (the system they use to connect remotely to the Telecom network to use the necessary applications to contact customers). Produced massive logouts. So were all the call center of Cablevision, Personal and Fibertel del pas “, indicated the user Pablo Wasserman.
Apparently, the hack occurred from the sending of a file that appeared to be a text file, but in reality it was an executable that “hijacked” the company’s servers to request ransom. This type of attack is called “ransomware”. Hackers ask for $ 7.5 million in cryptocurrencies to return the files.
The message that circulated internally within the company and went viral on social networks indicates that Telecom “has been the victim of a globally dispersed cyberattack.” “It has not affected critical services. Our cyber defense teams are working for the containment and mitigation of it“they indicated from the company.
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