The week in ransomware: Foxconn and Randstad are high-profile victims
Foxconn and Randstad are laid low by cyber criminals, while Sophos spills on Egregor, and prognosticators turn to their crystal balls to divine how ransomware will develop in the next 12 months
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High-profile organisations falling victim to ransomware attacks during the week of 7 to 11 December 2020 have included electronics giant Foxconn and recruitment specialists Randstad, as the criminal gangs behind ransomware show no signs of letting up.
Foxconn’s Mexican chip fab facility, which was initially attacked over the Thanksgiving weekend at the end of November by the DoppelPaymer gang and was shut down as a result, is now returning to business as usual following the attack on its systems which saw stolen files published on DoppelPaymer’s leak site – mostly innocuous internal documents, according to reports. The cyber criminals behind